Correction: Executive Status Report Templates for Busy Executives
Corrected by Selen Ikbal Uslu · Content Quality Analyst and English Language Specialist
Selen Ikbal Uslu found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Evolang
- Topic
- Business Writing
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 19 July 2026
The exact change
"Every word in a status report either transfers information or wastes attention. There are no neutral words at 90 seconds." Stephen Pinker, The Sense of Style
In a document read under time pressure, every word either transfers information or wastes the reader's attention. There are no neutral words when you only have a minute or two.
Why this is better
The author's name is misspelled as "Stephen Pinker"; the real cognitive scientist and author of The Sense of Style is Steven Pinker (verified via Penguin Random House, Amazon, and the author's own sit
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