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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. So, I couldn’t be much more happy with that. It seems that a lot more people nowadays are professing the power of storytelling.

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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. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking. Peter Bregman learns how to do one thing at a time. Why I Returned My iPad. The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received.

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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

If an employee is glued to her desk with headphones on, immersed in music and G-chatting with her best buddy, she is missing the opportunity to create relationships with people on the job who might be launching a project for which she'd be perfect, or who's kicking around the idea to launch a new firm that needs precisely her talents.

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The Essential Guide to Crafting a Work Email

Harvard Business Review

They aren’t as immersed in your project as you are, and they probably have many other things going on. Generally speaking, the number of recipients dictates how many revisions you should do, according to author David Silverman : 1 to 5 recipients = 2 to 4 revisions. “Consider your message from their perspective.