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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

It seems obvious that you shouldn't put your audience to sleep, doesn't it? Don't overuse I (try not to begin paragraphs or successive sentences with it), but do lean heavily on we, our, you, and your. The most engaging communicators avoid trite expressions, whether in conversation or in writing. They use strong, simple words.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. He’s no longer thinking about serving and delighting his audience (customers). They even developed a method to involve employees in the details of ship design, a powerful example of their new emphasis on the vertical rather than the horizontal. Bottlenecks appear.

Company 10