On details

It is said, the devil is in the detail.

In an entirely different context, attention to detail is angelic..in fact it is a typical ELQ...Executive like quality.

Often, executives mistakenly avoid attention to detail, under the pretext of avoidance of details, and hence end up making several mistakes.

I must hasten to add, ATD is different from obsession with detail...The latter suggests non productive micro analysis, the former indicates a critical and keen eye to make sure all critical matters are correctly captured.

As a corollary, the phrase' brief details' may not be as strange as it sounds...one can be avoidably brief abt detail, and lose out on accurate end results.