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How My C.I.O. Transformed Me into a Word Thrift
It takes 10 times more effort to write concisely and not let any written word go to waste
My direct supervisor, Irfan, the Chief Information Officer, is a picky guy.
He believes in bringing out the best of us. Irfan is particularly picky when it comes to inter-department communication. Mind you, we are not in Public Relations. We work in the Group Information Technology (G.I.T.) department.
My immediate colleagues are technology nerds. They do not speak any human language in their daily lives. Instead, they type C++, spit Python, think Hadoop, and babble Big Data.
Colleagues from the business side of the organization are perpetually annoyed with our service support. We do our job well. We just happen to speak with an alien’s tongue. That changed when Irfan came along.
Communication done correctly is about clarity, not flair of language
Our first internal keynote meeting was on managerial communication. Irfan did not spend more than 30 minutes on this meeting. It reveals a lot about his working style.
Transparency and clarity are chimed repeatedly. To be honest, those were the only words I recalled after the…
