Tip: Check your texts for readability

Leadership is all about communication, but if your texts are difficult to understand they will seriously limit your effectiveness.

One way of checking your capacity to write clearly is to use a tool to calculate the "fog index", personally I use:

http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp

This text, for example, requires that the reader has about 13 years of formal education to understand it clearly on the first reading...