The Entrepreneurial Savant

If you have a problem or a challenge, write it down. Then write down the solution. Now eliminate every unnecessary word and phrase until you have reached the kernel at the center. Congratulations, you are learning the invaluable skill of self-editing. Successful people know how to communicate clearly and briefly. Put it in a nutshell.
When he was head of the British Admiralty, Winston Churchill was famous for requiring all reports and memos to take no more than 1 sheet of paper. This freaked out the career bureaucrats who justified their existence by creating unreadable, mountainous documents but it really sped up the ancient Royal Navy’s decision making process. Simplicity….it’s a beautiful thing.
BTW, these became known as Winston’s Prayers because his order said: ‘Pray keep the response down to one page or less’. He was known for his archaic (and wonderfully skilled) use of words.

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