With Drucker’s recent passing, I went back and read Wired‘s old interview with him from 1993. I enjoyed his point that nobody goes to engineering school because of brilliance in writing:
I ran an unscientific time check the other day on the brilliant engineering department of a big company. I just asked engineers to keep a time log for a few weeks. I learned they spend two-thirds of their time polishing reports. Nobody goes to engineering school because of brilliance in writing. On the other hand, the world is full of English majors who can do nothing else. It has taken me two years to get that company to accept the fact that you want your engineers to give you the data, and maybe even write the first draft. But since it takes five drafts before you have a decent report, you hire editors.