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> The need for summarizing is a > symptom of our increasingly > poor communication and degrading > writing skills.

Whilst I agree there is a societal decline, there has also always been a corporate tendency towards verbosity and opaqueness.

The old rule from the days of memos still seems to apply: ignore first paragraph, get positive / negative gist from second, learn about the impact in the third, ignore remainder.



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