I have a colleague who has a rule of keeping emails five sentences or fewer. Can he summarize a one-hour meeting that way? Not comprehensively. However, our team is happy to sacrifice completeness for concision. In part because of his commitment to follow-up, he’s known as a change-marker in the org.
brevity matters! cool exercise is to take something long and to try to describe it orally. vocalizing ideas can distill the information to its essence. take an idea and describe it in 5 minutes, describe it in 60 seconds, and finally describe it in 10 seconds.
I have a colleague who has a rule of keeping emails five sentences or fewer. Can he summarize a one-hour meeting that way? Not comprehensively. However, our team is happy to sacrifice completeness for concision. In part because of his commitment to follow-up, he’s known as a change-marker in the org.
brevity matters! cool exercise is to take something long and to try to describe it orally. vocalizing ideas can distill the information to its essence. take an idea and describe it in 5 minutes, describe it in 60 seconds, and finally describe it in 10 seconds.