David McNew/Getty Images Kevin J. Delaney is the founder of Reset Work, a newsletter about work and leadership in the pandemic era and beyond. This post is part of Reset Work's weekly business book briefing, republished with permission. In it, Delaney breaks down "Working Backwards," a new book from Amazon alums Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. This post originally appeared in the Reset Work newsletter — sign up here. Much of the coverage of Jeff Bezos's recent announcement that he plans to cede the CEO role at Amazon noted the retailer's idiosyncratic corporate practices. Perhaps most famous of them is the fact that important meetings at Amazon begin with 20 minutes of silence. During that time, executives quietly read six-page narrative memos presenting the matter to be discussed.