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

Harvard Business Review

I believe in diversity of opinion. Either way, what are you doing reading the Harvard Business Review? David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor. It makes the world great. It brings us Elvis Presley and Jascha Heifetz. It also puts pineapple on pizzas.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. Headphones can operate as a visual "do not disturb, I'm working" signal for employees who, in open-plan offices, need solitude in order to execute their work.