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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! The Key to Business and Career Success , I spoke about the importance of hiring people with common sense and good critical judgment because at some point, you want them to violate policy when it is in the company’s best interest to do so.

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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. The Key to Business and Career Success. ” -Stan Silverman. . ” -Stan Silverman. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. ” -Stan Silverman.

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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. Result) Now that plastic is used in every product we make and the patent is considered best in class in our industry.”

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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? Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? 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?

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

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. Dr. Robyn Silverman ( Leadership Expert ) Number #1 leadership competency a person must possess or learn to succeed? Second, listening allows us to learn and to understand.

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

Harvard Business Review

The ShamWow product website. David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor. We learn the lessons of life through the stories of others. Special Double Offer: 4 Large & 4 Mini ShamWows! Plus our 10 year warranty. Now only 19.99 Buy 4 Large and 4 Mini ShamWows.

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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.