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Vijaya Vardhan🍊's avatar

I learned to write executive summaries a couple of years ago. I used to write the whole slide deck and then write the exec summary as the first slide. I don’t do that anymore. I first write the exec summary and then expand each bullet point into a slide.

The summary must tell a story. The story should connect to the core need or goal of the reader. If they are interested they will dig into your slides.

This post is a mini masterclass on producing stellar work items that change the game @Torsten Walbaum

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Jim Berridge's avatar

This is an incredible post with so many great insights and so much wisdom! I can’t do it the justice it deserves down here in the comments but I do see a powerful bigger theme here - the joy has to be in the journey. I was once young and naive, craving the status of a blackberry and a company car as I slogged to get up the chain of command at my first employer fresh out of college! There is more wisdom from my years of zigging and zagging since then.

Loving the posts here and this is definitely up there with post on dealing with meetings!

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