Lost Art of Letter Writing –DeWese

I am astounded by the poor writing skills of many of the folks who write to me via the U.S. mail, as well as those readers who send me e-mails. I recently wrote a hurried, three-page counter-proposal and faxed it to the CEO of a large printing industry consolidator about one of my M&A deals. He called me a few minutes later to tell me how amazed he was that I had written a “perfect” document in less than an hour. In his office, he said, it would have taken all day, would have required several rewrites and still would have contained errors.