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Hire People with Common Sense and Good Critical Judgement

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Stan Silverman : During a recent event to launch my book, Be Different! I didn’t have the authority to order the recall, and was told by my direct reports that I would either be celebrated or terminated for the recall decision. Stan Silverman is founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership and author of “ Be Different!

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

That’s what Stan Silverman has preached in his hundreds of columns for years. ” -Stan Silverman. ” -Stan Silverman. ” -Stan Silverman. Allow your direct reports to share a contrary point of view. It’s through differentiation that you or your business become successful. Become a Preferred Provider.

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How to Build Trust with Those You Lead

Strategy Driven

The articles that get the highest number of views are on the lack of trust between bosses and their direct reports. Never publicly undermine your direct reports. Stan Silverman is founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership and author of Be Different! I also have a window on the workplace issues that are on people’s minds.

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The Top 10 HBR Blog Posts of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Tony Schwartz of the Energy Project reports on what he's learned about top performance. Although David Silverman published this with us in 2009, it remained extremely timely this year. Although David Silverman published this with us in 2009, it remained extremely timely this year. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking.

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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

The image of legions of headphone-wearing employees sitting silently at their workstations, oblivious to the flesh-and-blood community around them but actively engaged with a virtual world, seems like a dystopian future envisioned in movies like Minority Report. But that future is here. Organizational psychologists such as K.

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Yes, College Essays Are Ruining Our Economy

Harvard Business Review

Silverman tells us to write shorter." Silverman is awesome!" My students will go on to produce reports for the likes of Mr. Dimon and the next President. I told the students I didn't care if they wrote something short, as long as it made a meaningful point. You might worry that I would have gotten a lot of "Prof.