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Clarity Over Complexity

“If they can’t feel what you mean, it doesn’t matter how smart you sound.”

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David Sammel
Jul 05, 2025
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Complexity flatters the ego.

Clarity moves the room.

In every boardroom, every pitch, every high-performance team I’ve coached there’s a pattern that repeats:

The ones trying hardest to be taken seriously over-complicate their message.

The ones who own the room say less, and say it cleaner.

It’s not that they know less.

It’s that they know what matters. They …

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