Why Leaders Need To Use Plain Language at Work with Leslie O'Flahavan
Relationships at Work - a trust-driven leadership podcast
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Why Do People Write Unplainly?
In the academic setting, you write for one expert reader who exerts great power over you. The academic world does not prepare people very well writing in the workplace. Also, fear makes us write unplainly. And also, writing has we write in communities with cultures. Sometimes the culture is one of unplainness. But we can change. It's a funny thing about common things, they're not common. So plain language seems to be challenging for a lot of people. I don't understand why this is.
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