Ronny Kohavi: belief

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…What is something relatively minor you've changed in the way your teams develop product, that has had a big impact on their ability to execute? I think this is something that I learned at Amazon, which is a structured narrative. So Amazon has some variance of this, which sometimes go by the name of a six pager or something. But when I was at Amazon, I still remember that email from Jeff, which is, "No more PowerPoint. I'm going to force you to write a narrative." I took that to heart. And many of the features that the team presented instead of a PowerPoint, you start off with a structured document that tells you what you need, the questions you need to answer for your idea. And then we review them as a team. And Amazon, these were paper-based. Now it's all based on Word or Google Docs where people comment, and I think the impact of that was amazing. I think the ability to give people honest feedback and have them appreciate, and have it stay after the meeting in these notes on the document, just amazing. Final question, have you ever run an A/B test on your life, either your dating life, your family, your kids? And if so, what did you try?…

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