Three skills: 1. “If you want to be effective or influential you must communicate yourself completely.” Getting comfortable writing a document, proposal or vi

Three skills: 1. “If you want to be effective or influential you must communicate yourself completely.” Getting comfortable writing a document, proposal or vision which summarizes and organizes the entirety of your reasoning and fully describes the problem and what needs to get done. If you have something complex to communicate this matters. I have personally seen entire startups raise funding and get started based on having a well documented thinking like this. If you plan to go into any complex endeavor I think this is a critical skill. 2. Sending great Summary Reports There is incredible power in being able to write, organize and send a complete report which captures the total state of your job and thoughts about it. Very intelligent management are dying for a tool to help them manage a complex landscape. If you are the only one capable of preparing these reports it is super useful. 3. You have to tell people how to work with you, self disclosure I went my entire career carrying resentment around with me and frustration rather than try to provide others with guidance on what I am like and how to work with me. Finally, this year, I joined a new company and had enough. A good friend of mine told me to tell people what I am like up front at the start of the relationship so they understand. I have aspects of add and Aspergers and am very introverted. It effects almost everything but it can be managed but I think disclosing myself to others helps Me to reduce the conflicts and blow ups that happen to me all too often