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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. ....