“All your people write long narratives that we have to wade through! We’d have our writing problems licked if we could just get them to jot things down simply in bullet points,” the president snapped at his partner. “Everything can’t be boiled down to bullet points,” the older partner and chairman of the board responded. [...]
“I’m tired of going to court because these lawyers don’t know how to use a which clause or where to put a comma.” A vice president and general counsel of a large oil company made that statement to me early in my career just as he was contracting my training company to lead business writing [...]
What does your writing say about your personal brand or that of your company? For all the words you speak during the average day, my guess is that you write with far less confidence—and often less fluently. Yet your business and your brand depend on what your writing can deliver: attention-grabbing emails and letters to [...]
Catching grammar goofs could be an entertaining game as they pop up in social media—-if the prevalence of such errors didn’t make it boring child’s play. But occasionally, something surprises me. I grabbed my bowl of cereal and sat down to the breakfast table this morning only to read this copy in big bold print [...]
