As you get older and wiser - well there is an assumption there - you realize that if they can't tell you what you need to know in a page or two, they can't tell you at all. It's less about helping the senior guy know how to think than it is about teaching the guys who write this stuff about how to think.
It's the old phrase in "Alice in Wonderland" if you don't know where you are going then any way will get you there.
Our company president wanted it on an index card. If they want more, they’ll want a drill down.