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To triumph in the remote work age, you need to learn business writing
A blog post fundamentally changed the way that I think about writing.
I came across Scott Adams’ blog post adapted from his book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
I had read the book before, but the post caused me to re-evaluate my approach towards writing.
Why? Because it asked a simple question: How did you learn to write for work?
You (probably) haven’t been taught business writing
Unless you’ve done an MBA, you’ve probably never learned how to do business writing.
If you’ve ever taken a writing course, they tend to focus on creative writing.
Those that didn’t, such as your high school English classes, may have taught you grammar or how to write an academic paper.
But business writing is different.
“As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think you already do that in your writing, but you probably don’t.”…
