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Writing letters of reference for your employees is an important part of the employee separation process when a company closes. A company shutdown is a difficult situation for everyone involved, but a ...

Years ago, Jeff Bezos started an interesting practice at Amazon. Before meeting to discuss a new product or idea, Bezos would arrange for an executive to write a narratively structured six-page memo.

It may seem as if a memo – which is short for 'memorandum' – is a document you can dash off quickly without giving it too much thought. But while memos are by nature brief (no more than two pages), ...

President Trump has been criticised for not wanting to read long, detailed policy papers. He likes his briefings to be whittled down to the headlines. "I like bullets or I like as little as possible.