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Leading a Team in a Corporate Workplace

May 11, 2023 | Filed under: Gael Spivak

I’ve been leading a small team of writers and editors since 2014. Here are some tips I’ve figured out over that time. Play to people’s strengths Let people do what they enjoy and are good at (as much as possible). In my workplace, writers and editors are usually assigned subject …

Wasted Words: Channelling Orwell

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Wilf Popoff

“Insincerity,” says George Orwell in his classic commentary of 70 years ago, is the “great enemy of clear language.” Political discourse is “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable…” For Orwell, insincerity was more a result of lazy writing than a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth: “…if …

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Four Guidelines for Editing Your Way Through the Corporate Jungle

November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Sue Archer

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be an editor. Unlike many of my editing colleagues who work in publishing, I ply my trade within a corporation. Although my official title is not “editor,” editing is a large part of what I do. I’ve worked for …

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