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Q&A Shortening a title without changing its meaning

Essentially, I want to change: Managing a lot of people is a very difficult problem to: Lot of people, difficult problem I understand that when you shorten a title, it will become more vagu...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by tefisjb‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:35:09Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/44248
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar tefisjb‭ · 2019-12-08T11:35:09Z (over 4 years ago)
Essentially, I want to change:

> Managing a lot of people is a very difficult problem

to:

Lot of people, difficult problem

I understand that when you shorten a title, it will become more vague, but sometimes, I feel like when you shorten it too much the meaning becomes too uncertain or difficult to guess, is there a consensus on how to do this properly or perhaps a widespread practice on how to do this properly, that I am not aware of?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-04-01T13:54:49Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 4