Communicating With Impact: Cutting through with the written word
No Bullsh!t Leadership
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Email Is a Problem for Leaders
Email was designed to speed the flow of communication and information in an organisation. But over time this has not turned out to be the case for most people. Here's half a dozen reasons that just occurred to me off the top of my head. For example, if you ask someone to do something via email, it has nowhere near the likelihood of getting done as when you talk to them face-to-face. Poor writing skills lead to overly verbose emails. There are simply too many emails. It's become the default mode of communication. The information is virtually impossible to assimilate and digest. So it is the thief of value.
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