Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less (Revised and Updated)

by Jim Vandehei

Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, told us that, in a hypothetical 10,000-employee company that spends $1 billion on payroll, 50 to 60 percent of the average employee’s time is spent on communication of some sort. Yet no one provides the tools and training to do this well.

“Brevity is confidence. Length is fear.”