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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. 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. These leaders never micro-manage. Fowler said she was given a choice: move to another team and avoid her former manager, or remain on the team and probably receive a poor performance review.

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How to Build Trust with Those You Lead

Strategy Driven

Stan Silverman is founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership and author of Be Different! Organizations in which employees trust their leaders perform at a significantly higher level than those in which trust is lacking. Be sure you engender trust with those you lead. About the Author. The Key to Business and Career Success.

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How Etsy Found Its Purpose and Crafted a Turnaround

Harvard Business Review

CEO Josh Silverman’s purpose-driven turnaround at Etsy made the company profitable and improved its social and environmental impact.

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An Interview with Peak Performance Expert David Silverman

HR Digest

Former Navy SEAL, David Silverman discusses the role of establishing a shared sense of purpose in non-executive teams. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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Leadership & The Value Of An Inquiring Mind

You're Not the Boss of Me

Share this: 4 Comments Filed under Change Management , communication , Learning Tagged as change leadership , communication , curiosity , Leadership , Seth Godin ← The Practical Gift of Humility Becoming a leader…Shifting the Balance of Power. And, the older I get the more I know that I don’t know very much at all. How about you?

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Becoming a leader…Shifting the Balance of Power. | You're Not the.

You're Not the Boss of Me

When I first became a manager, I tried to be friends with everyone. Acquiring a “larger view&# when we first undertake a management position, seems to be the first order of business if we are to bring leadership to the role. Harris Silverman [link] Reply Gwyn Teatro August 5, 2010 at 5:28 pm Hi Harris, Yes, you make a good point.