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How to get everyone to write like Ernest Hemingway

Making Change

We stopped talking around the issue and stated it directly, the way our CEO might say it. And by using “we” and “you,” we made clear that we’re human beings in a conversation, not robots issuing edicts. Use strong verbs instead of wimpy “is.” Say “you” and “we.”

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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Justin Lombardo

CLO Magazine

I was associate dean of curriculum for two of them as they were trying to merge their curriculum, because they were cooperative colleges. So that got me interested, which led me to look at — when I was ready to leave higher ed — issues of learning and development as competency-based, which led me to corporate.

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