Simple communication

“Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn’t about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.”  - John Kotter

Communication is the killer app.
Nearly all breakdowns happen over a lack of communication.
Part of the problem is that we use too many words.
I find that many of the emails that I write are lengthy.  They have great information in them, but the truth is most people do not read them.

I don’t read long emails. Do you?  I’m guessing not. So if the purpose is communication, then even if people (meaning “I”) should read long emails but we’re not actually doing it, we have to fix the issue.  

Here is one tip to make your communicaton simple:

Start putting a “twitter version of this email” at the top of every long email. State in 140 characters or less what really needs to be communicated.  The “if-you-don’t-get-anything-else-you-really-need-to-know-this” stuff.

Simple communication never hurt anyone.