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Are you drowning in words? Information is proliferating, but what about knowledge and wisdom?
 
We seem to overdo the superfluous and gloss over the essential, resulting in wasted time and resources.
 
Our attitude needs to change. We need to pause. And we need to examine our goals, because our 'successes' are costing us dearly: food that makes us ill, gadgets that stress us out, information we cannot digest, resources burned through that we did not need and cannot reuse.
 
If you're tired of the waste, if you're finding yourself drawn to quality over quantity, then you've come to the right web site.
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Simon judging the best and worst of words

2011 New Zealand WriteMark Awards

Simon Hertnon is delighted to be on the judging panel for two categories (Best Plain English Document and People's Choice Awards for the best and worst documents) in this year's WriteMark Plain English Awards. Entries have closed. Results announced in The Listener mid-November.
 

Learn to 'write less and achieve more' at VUW

Seminar: 27 February 2012, Wellington

Victoria University of WellingtonSimon regularly delivers his Optimal Words seminar in Wellington as 'Writing Essentials', a Victoria University Professional and Executive Development short course. The next course is on Monday 27 February 2012.
 
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Hear Simon speak about information overload

Talk: 3-5pm, 19 August 2011, Wellington

The Plain English champions over at Write have invited Simon to speak about writing skills and 'changing attitudes to paper wars and information overload'. If you're a CEO, CIO, or senior manager and you're troubled by the rising quantities and costs of information, then this is a talk you shouldn't miss. An Auckland event is also planned.
 
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New services

Optimal Goals

Worried about the soundness of a major project or strategy, or the very purpose and direction of your company or organisation? Check out our Optimal Goals service.
 

Optimal Brands

Worried your branding is poorly representing your business? Check out our brand auditing service called Optimal Brands.
 

New book

The Price of Words

Clear, Concise, Compelling is the antidote, but what is the ailment? Simon is writing a provocative new management book that is part exposé (on the true costs and implications of information overload and poor writing skills) and part guidebook (about how to transform an organisation from one that is addicted to low-value information to one that gainfully utilises high-value information). It's called The Price of Words and will be published in 2012.

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