In a recent interview with CNBC's Adam Bryant, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner shared his thoughts on a variety of business topics, including what he's learned about email over the years.

In doing so, he called out the practice that stands out as the single biggest mistake people make in email: Writing too much.

"It's easy to overlook the importance of clarity and brevity in emails," Weiner explains. "The longer and more complex an email, the more questions get raised and people are looking for follow-up answers and you have to send more emails, and then more responses come back, and so forth and so on."

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