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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

And I now have the opportunity to speak to audiences all over the world about the power of storytelling as a leadership tool — all very humbling for a book that started out as a weekend writing project. What has Lead with A Story done for your career? So, I couldn’t be much more happy with that. I feel you started that trend.

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

Harvard Business Review

If your business document doesn't do that, then consider that it might work better engraved on a Grecian urn — because what you've typed as an email to your boss is more an ode than a request to approve your project. David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor.

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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.