Don't talk too much, write too much.

Many people are afraid of meeting people who talk too much, reading documents or newspapers and seeing long articles. Long articles are read by choosing the necessary parts, and skipping over the unnecessary parts. If delegates talk too much, there will be someone responsible for “intervening”, if people in high positions talk too much, they will have to sit and wait for the time to end or “hang up on the phone”!

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In the 4.0 era, speaking and writing concisely, sufficiently, accurately, attractively and practically is a requirement for officials, especially leaders. Speaking at length, the more you speak, the more information you have, the more attractive it is; writing at length, the more in-depth you write, without excess; being concise but sufficient demonstrates extensive knowledge, experience, ability, skillful methods and a serious preparation process. Listeners and readers thus expand their information, raise their awareness, are inspired, energized, and are truly beneficial.

In short, write concisely but enough. Just because it is short but "cuts the frog off", missing the beginning and the end is a failure. Detailed, complete but "bitter", lacking logic,... not practical, not attractive, people do not want to listen, get bored of reading, also failure!

In reality, at some conferences, there are people - especially leaders, who, when speaking, almost do not care about time, and do not even care whether anyone is listening or not. There are people who "go with the flow", say whatever they remember, lack preparation, general content, lack focus, key points, make nonsense calls, talk over and over again,... listeners only sit because of responsibility, out of respect, in reality "one ear goes in and out the other". Similarly, there are articles that are "formulaic", "top evidence, bottom article", "old ways" that are boring, very few people read and lack influence. It is sad to speak but people do not want to listen, write but people do not want to read.

Uncle Ho once taught: Who to write for? What to write? What to write for? How to write? He also criticized: Talking too much commits three shortcomings: Ignorance, not being able to speak concisely - Being ignorant but thinking others are as ignorant as you - Wasting many people's time!

In the activities and life of a cadre, there are many contents and qualities that must be possessed. Learning and practicing to write and speak correctly, concisely and practically is something that needs attention. That is also a content in the administrative reform that we are implementing.