Ep 02. Why 9 Out of 10 Documents Don’t Get Read

People spend evenings and weekends perfecting decks, send them a week in advance, and still arrive at a meeting where nobody has read them. Why does this keep happening?In Episode 2, Nick Breukelman and Mark van der Burgt explore why decision documents become too long and how to make them easier to read, discuss and act on. They cover the 10-page rule, cover memos, SCQ, the pyramid principle, appendices, stakeholder management and the difficult art of killing your darlings.A practical conversation about building documents around the decision and respecting the reader’s time.