What is the point of a 50 Page Memo that you just skim through, easily overlooking stuff, instead of having a 5 page comprehensive summary?
Any good leader needs to delegate things. If he cant trust people with making summarys and understand these, instead relying on his quick-read-hopefully-not-overlook-something skills, then that is terrible for the country.
Also again, giving your boss something to read expecting he only reads a quarter of, is both a failure of your boss and you, as you are wasting each others time this way.
Ibdon’t doubt that stuff had tobbe dumped down forbTrump, but amount of pages is not a good metric and the more pages a memo has, the more it gets questionable if it is an appropriate mean of communication
I suspect most world leaders would have people who have the necessary expertise to condense that down and just give them the high level overview. Dense and technical. Sit down with those advisors and talk through the pros and cons. Probably pull out the original 50 page document in places to “zoom in” on details.
But following the Trump administration, he got rid of anyone around him who wasn’t a sycophant, so that limits his choice of staff somewhat, leaving the guy who’d normally submit a 50 page memo and assume the president read it all (along with dozens of other similar size memos from other departments), to break it down himself, like feeding a toddler by pretending the spoon is an aeroplane.
If the memo was made 100% for the President’s eye, then he should read it in detail. If not, there should be a summary containing only the important bits, because Presidents shouldn’t be skimming through long memos and potentially missing stuff.
Not giving Trump a pass here btw, man’s as stupid as he is evil.
