And it’s a key skill Warren Buffett, one of the most legendary investors in history, firmly believes in.
“If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential,” Buffett emphasized.
“It is never too late to improve,” he wrote. “Get the right heroes and copy them.”
“For new employees, it’s a strange initial experience,” he told Fortune. “They’re just not accustomed to sitting silently in a room and doing study hall with a bunch of executives.”
But the art of crafting a memo is even more challenging to master.
“Full sentences are harder to write,” he added. “They have verbs. The paragraphs have topic sentences. There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.”
