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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Dr. Robyn Silverman ( Leadership Expert ) Number #1 leadership competency a person must possess or learn to succeed? Please DO NOT reward those who do a great job simply with more work!!!!! David Clutterbuck ( Leadership Coach & Mentor ) Compassion. After all, if you're not serving others, you are self-serving and that's not leadership.

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

Harvard Business Review

David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor. He is the author of Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars and of the April 2011 HBR article, " Synthesis: Constructive Confessions.". Has the prevalence of "txting" led to a spate of e.e.