Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Why Every Email Should Be 5 Sentences Long
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: "Proper email is a balance between politeness and succinctness," entrepreneur-investor-author Guy Kawasaki tells Entrepreneur.com. "Less than five sentences is often abrupt and rude, more than five sentences wastes time."
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Effective communication is a very important skill. Especially in an age where people have shorter and shorter attention spans the ability to concisely convey ideas is becoming evermore important. I know that when I see long emails I do not feel inclined to read the entire thing. When you want someone to do something for you then those instructions shouldn't take more than five sentences anyways. If they are actually instructions that are complicated enough to require more than five sentences then the task needs to be explained in far more than an email.
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