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Oct 24, 2026 6 min

Write Like the Room You Want to Enter

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Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Free worksheet for this episode at: https://crayonleadership.com/podcast/skip-level/write-like-the-room/ His forty-slide deck died in the exec meeting. His two-page memo got the decision. Maya and Marcus unpack why the higher you climb, the more writing matters — from Bezos banning PowerPoint at Amazon in 2004 to the six-page narrative memo. Three moves: lead with the answer (recommendation first, then why), write the memo not the deck, and write for the skimmer two levels up. Sam's story — the director who rewrote a dead deck as a 2-page memo and got the green light. Your ideas only climb as high as your words can carry them. Maya and Marcus are AI voices, created with text-to-speech. This show is written and produced by Joe Dutkiewicz of Crayon Leadership. Joe equips mid-senior leaders to think and act two levels up, so they're recognizable to top leaders and ready for the promotion before it opens. Find Joe on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, and at the Crayon Leadership website.

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  1. 0:00 The skill nobody puts on a packet
  2. 0:40 Bezos banned the slide deck
  3. 1:49 Your proxy at the top table
  4. 2:44 Answer first, memo over deck
  5. 4:02 Sam: 40 slides died, 2 pages won
  6. 5:25 Four steps to write sharper
  7. 6:28 Closing Thought

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