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Executive Summary

Name: Executive Summary
Duration: 58 s
Description: An executive summary condenses findings into the few numbers and sentences a decision-maker needs, leaving the detail behind it available on request.

An executive summary condenses findings into the few numbers and sentences a decision-maker needs, leaving the detail behind it available on request.

The hardest part of analysis is deciding what you can leave out. An executive summary carries the answer, the confidence level and the one caveat that could change the decision, and trusts the appendix to handle the rest.

Play this while you cut. If a sentence does not alter what the reader will do, it belongs in the notebook, not in the summary. Brevity here is not simplification. It is the final proof that you understood the data well enough to compress it.