When Winston Churchill returned for his second term as…

When Winston Churchill returned for his second term as prime minister in 1951 (he was voted out in 1945), he resent his 1940 "Brevity" memo, because official papers were still "too long and diffuse.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Friction Project : How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Har

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