First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 14, 2011
Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. Instead of trying to wax poetic about your division’s plans for the next 60 days, just make your [.]. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. In business writing, you get points for clarity, not style.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 27, 2011
by David Silverman. Silverman's basic philosophy on cover letters? Here's what's coming: "a purposeful, planned, orchestrated, and integrated way of doing business in a social context.". We all hate business jargon, but we can't stop using it. More people commented on this post than on any other in HBR.org's history.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 30, 2011
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.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 6, 2015
The book is co-authored by his colleagues Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell.). The longer we did it, the more I realized the value of rehearsal was not in trying to get this perfectly choreographed kabuki that would unfold as planned. I’ve never been on an operation that went as planned.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 30, 2012
Over the course of my earlier professional incarnations I worked in mission-driven organizations with more or less open office plans — Sesame Street, SPY magazine, Nickelodeon — where much of our successes were driven by the invisible but powerful sense of shared purpose generated by the news and information that was simply overheard.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2013
As comedians like Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Cera start production companies to develop and sell original content to digital distributors like Yahoo!, Will Holllywood figure out how to use the Internet to generate the big bucks? You have to go way, way down this Fast Company article to find much revenue to speak of.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2013
As comedians like Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Cera start production companies to develop and sell original content to digital distributors like Yahoo!, Will Holllywood figure out how to use the Internet to generate the big bucks? You have to go way, way down this Fast Company article to find much revenue to speak of.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
80 
Let's personalize your content