Leadership Communication
A communication strategy for small teams
The teams that communicate well aren't the ones with more rules. They're the ones with fewer, sharper defaults — and the discipline to keep them.
7 min read · Updated 2025-05-05 · The RewriteAIForMe Editors
Default to written
If a decision matters enough to make, it's worth one paragraph of writing. The paragraph is the artifact. Conversations evaporate; writing compounds.
Decision first, context after
Every internal message that proposes or records a decision should put the decision in sentence one. Reasoning, tradeoffs, and alternatives follow. Most teams reverse this and lose hours per week to scrolling.
Name the audience explicitly
Start cross-team messages with who needs to act, who needs to be aware, and who can ignore. Three lines saves thirty replies.
Edit before sending
Treat any message that will be read by more than three people as worth a one-minute edit pass. The compounded reading time alone justifies it.
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