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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Years ago, a mentor advised me to put an executive summary at the beginning of my multi-page technical reports because few managers would read the whole thing, even engineering managers. There was some justification for that.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Once I put a line into a document right in the middle of a paragraph:

"when Johnny comes marching home again hurrah hurrah when Johnny comes"

Nobody remarked.

Most managers are too self-important for menial things like details.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

You have more nerve than me and/or greater power of prediction.

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Chris Fox's avatar

This was not the regulatory submission I wrote to the FDA

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