I managed a team for 25 years at a Japanese corporation. We had team members in many different timezones, and scheduling videoconferences was always a fraught process.

I write a lot. In fact “prolix” is not a bad word to use for my writing.

The biggest complaints I received were always about the lengths of my missives.

This was a legitimate complaint. It took a long time for people to translate my messages, and to translate the responses.

I learned to write emails with every sentence as a separate line, a clear abstract, and a clear conclusion/question.

Bullets were important, as was careful wording. Fifty-cent words were OK, as long as they were accurate and relevant, but jargon was harmful.