Here’s how McKinsey's women’s networking group describes itself.

This online tool challenges you to describe an idea using only the most common 1,000 words in English.

Nigel’s letter thoroughly delighted her – and we can see why.

But every summer we had a problem. The markets slept.

Here’s how we think lean principles apply to writing.

Wouldn’t it be great to get professional feedback on every document you write?

Lord Denning, one of the most celebrated judges of the twentieth century, was renowned for his way with words.

To write like a leader break out of the corporate language rut and ditch dead verbs.

"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time"

For writing that’s easy to read, make friends with the full stop.

If you’ve ever taken a creative writing class, you’ll be familiar with the phrase “show, don’t tell”.

We love this anecdote from The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, compiled by Dominique Enright.

Finally happy with that document you’ve been working on all morning? Great. Now go back and cut 20%.

There are times when business writing demands more words, rather than fewer

Use “people”, not “persons” (unless you really do want to sound like you’re arresting said “persons”).

How do you communicate bad news?

How do you balance communicating management views while trying to keep employees interested in your staff newsletter?

So in our third post on readability, we thought we'd actually put some business writing to the "mum" test.

Don’t say “following” when you mean “after”.

Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Pronouns. Only grammar geeks need to care about them, right? Wrong.