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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 described an experience early in my career while serving as national sales manager for one of my company’s operating divisions. I was informed that production of a batch of product was found to have trace contaminants and needed to be recalled.

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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. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. ” -Stan Silverman. ” -Stan Silverman. Become a Preferred Provider.

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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? Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Management is chaotic by nature. You don't have to sell Apple products.). The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received. by Steve W.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders.

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

Harvard Business Review

The ShamWow product website. If you have a suggestion ("buy more cows") and a counter suggestion ("sell all the cows") that are both reasonable, but based on different assumption ("the ability of cows to manage portfolio investments for our clients") then put those two contrasting thoughts and their reasoning in separate paragraphs.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

That may increase a certain kind of productivity, but at what cost? Management professors Sigal Barsade at Wharton and Hakan Ozcelik at Cal State Sacramento are among the pioneers in studying how employee isolation correlates with organizational outcomes.