The Midnight Edit

A CTO and her chief of staff review the final draft of the company strategy memo at 11 PM in Seattle before circulating it to the whole organization.

The Midnight Edit

Listen and choose the right answer

What document are Jennifer and Peter reviewing?

• A quarterly financial report
• The final strategy memo
• A bug tracking summary

What does Peter initially think about the sentence 'We will be boring where it doesn't matter'?

• He thinks it is too informal for an executive memo.
• He thinks it is too long and complicated.
• He wants to translate it into another language.

What happens to the disputed sentence within a week?

• The board forces them to delete it.
• It becomes the company's unofficial motto.
• It gets lost in the appendix material.

What is Jennifer's attitude toward the sentence?

• She believes it is too risky and wants to remove it.
• She thinks it's brilliant, honest, and worth keeping.
• She is indifferent and lets Peter decide.

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Jennifer: Peter, let's take one final look at this ____ before we circulate it for comment in the morning.
• Peter: Frankly, I'm glad we stayed late because the ____ in section two was still a bit messy.
• Jennifer: What worries me is whether our ____ is too dense for the junior developers to digest easily.
• Peter: Technically speaking, the ____ we've crafted keeps the core tenets crystal clear throughout.
• Jennifer: That's true, but what about our ____ on the serverless migration? We're about to commit publicly to it.

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