David Silverman

Recent Articles by David Silverman

December 21, 2009

That Written-By-Committee Flavor

Posted on Harvard Business Review: December 21, 2009 3:27 PM One of the challenges of corporate writing is the endless rounds of editing. No document of import can be ...

November 16, 2009

When I Finally Felt Like an Executive

Posted on Words at Work: November 16, 2009 11:55 AM When I was little, I heard about "executives." "Executives at Mega Corp have denied rumors of misdeeds." ...

October 23, 2009

How Successful CEOs Respond to Failure

Posted on Words at Work: October 21, 2009 2:29 PM Failure. We don't like to talk about it. But we all worry about it. We worry about it in the present: Why am I not ...

July 24, 2009

That Funny Email? No One's Laughing

Posted on Words at Work: July 23, 2009 11:33 AM In my emails, I often feel I am being wry—a wit, utterly urbane, a hobgoblin of humor, a mammal of mirth. And while I ...

June 16, 2009

About Cover Letters

Posted on Words at Work: June 15, 2009 1:18 PM In my last post I talked about how to make your résumé more likely to catch the attention of a hiring manager. As a ...

May 12, 2009

Controlling Your E-mail In-box

Posted on Words at Work: May 11, 2009 12:31 PM A reader recently asked me, "How do you deal with an incredibly full inbox that makes you feel like a jerk?" I'm happy ...

November 17, 2008

David Silverman: Bail Out GM

Posted on The Start-Up Diaries: November 17, 2008 1:49 PM Some people say that bailing out GM is wrong. That GM is weak after years of incompetent managing in a global...