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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

It’s one that started in the early 1990s with authors like David Armstrong and Peg Neuhauser, and continued in the 2000s by authors like Annette Simmons, Evelyn Clark, Lori Silverman, and Stephen Denning among many others. Paul : I don’t have any plans for a second edition of Lead with a Story. When and why?

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

by David Silverman. Silverman's basic philosophy on cover letters? Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Which of your activities are actually important to your career, and which merely provide the illusion of progress? We all hate business jargon, but we can't stop using it. Don't bother. by Tony Schwartz.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Spend less time planning and more time DOing. Having a plan is critical. TALKING about the plan is just that – talk. In order for us to empathize, we must listen so that we understand what others are dealing with, what’s happening in their careers and in their lives. People want an amazing future.

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How to Succeed in Business Writing: Don't Be Dickens

Harvard Business Review

A memo, report, business plan, email, and so on, all have in common that they ask the reader to do something, which is usually either to part with their own money, someone else's money, or take some other action that will ultimately result in cash trading hands in a manner beneficial to the author of the document. Business Writing.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

As I sit to write each morning, I draw upon the vast network of people (many in active chat windows) with whom I've worked in the trenches over the course of a 35-year career, while also having the benefit of opinions and insight by expert strangers a click away. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development.