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James daSilva

James daSilva is a content marketing manager and editorial consultant. He directed SmartBrief's leadership and management coverage from 2011-2022, as well as newsletters for HR executives, wholesale-distributors and manufacturers. Before joining SmartBrief, he was copy desk chief at a daily newspaper in New York. You can find him on Linkedin and Twitter. Off the clock, he re-reviews The Onion's print issue from exactly 20 years ago in a free Sunday newsletter.

Articles by James daSilva

LeadershipManagement

Why curiosity, generosity and shared accountability matter

By James daSilva 05/20/22

Leadership

What SmartBrief’s top leadership posts of 2021 tell us

By James daSilva 12/15/21

Management

What can one manager do about the Great Resignation?

By James daSilva 12/07/21

Inspiration

How to change people without forcing them to change

By James daSilva 09/13/21

Management

What’s the opportunity in the problem?

By James daSilva 09/07/21

Management

Are famous leaders the role models you need?

By James daSilva 06/21/21

LeadershipManagement

SmartBrief’s primer on burnout and employee wellness

By James daSilva 04/13/21

Management

Return to work, but not return to normal

By James daSilva 04/05/21

Management

Burnout’s a big problem. Start solving it through your team

By James daSilva 03/16/21

Management

NAW’s CEO shares how distributors are delivering

By James daSilva 03/12/21

Management

What leaders can take away from Bezos’ big news

By James daSilva 02/03/21

Leadership

Grainger, Graybar, Cardinal share pandemic lessons from distributors

By James daSilva 01/29/21

Management

Who do you most admire?

By James daSilva 01/01/21

Leadership

What SmartBrief’s top leadership posts of 2020 tell us

By James daSilva 12/11/20

Management

How can office politics work for you instead of against you?

By James daSilva 11/03/20

Management

Questions that can help your team manage technology overload

By James daSilva 09/10/20

Leadership

Target’s CEO on navigating crisis in 2020

By James daSilva 06/24/20

Strategy

The status quo is over

By James daSilva 06/16/20

Management

Why are leadership thinkers silent about Floyd and the protests?

By James daSilva 06/01/20

Management

The recession is all around us. What now?

By James daSilva 03/29/20

Education

K-12 needs better planning for cyber incidents

By James daSilva 03/16/20

Leadership

SmartBrief on Leadership’s 2019 in review — editor’s picks

By James daSilva 12/24/19

Leadership

What SmartBrief’s top leadership posts of 2019 tell us

By James daSilva 12/22/19

Inspiration

Resist the urge to adopt a zero-sum mentality

By James daSilva 10/31/19

Management

Productive and unproductive guilt and suffering

By James daSilva 10/01/19

Healthcare

#NRPAConference: How parks and rec can take the lead on mental health

By James daSilva 09/30/19

Marketing

#NRPAConference: How to make your program surveys smarter

By James daSilva 09/25/19

HR

How a culture-first CEO sees HR, diversity and inclusion

By James daSilva 08/06/19

Careers

(Almost) everything changes. How will you react?

By James daSilva 08/01/19

Management

Will your cultural values survive the test?

By James daSilva 07/18/19

Leadership

A Walmart leader’s lessons in being an “Only” in corporate America

By James daSilva 06/27/19

Leadership

#SHRM19: Symantec’s culture overhaul shows how data and communication work together

By James daSilva 06/25/19

Leadership

#SHRM19: Giving a second chance to people with criminal records

By James daSilva 06/25/19

Leadership

#SHRM19: Want better talent and business outcomes? Expand your hiring mindset

By James daSilva 06/25/19

Leadership

What Domino’s learned from imposing constraints

By James daSilva 05/28/19

Management

ATD 2019: We have a trust crisis

By James daSilva 05/23/19

Leadership

ATD 2019: How talent development can measure without losing sight of the business

By James daSilva 05/20/19

Inspiration

Make the most of being a manager

By James daSilva 05/17/19

Strategy

Does what you’re doing have a purpose?

By James daSilva 03/08/19

Strategy

The next technological disruption is coming. How will we adapt?

By James daSilva 02/06/19

Leadership

Valin shows how digital transformation can be truly transformative

By James daSilva 02/01/19

Management

New habits require a fundamental change in ourselves

By James daSilva 01/07/19

Leadership

What SmartBrief’s top leadership posts of 2018 tell us

By James daSilva 12/06/18

Management

Lessons from Bradley Cooper in empowering people

By James daSilva 10/29/18

Leadership

Dan Pink: Timing really is everything

By James daSilva 10/04/18

Management

GE’s lessons won’t determine whether you succeed or fail

By James daSilva 10/02/18

Transportation

Smaller cities can become smart cities, too

By James daSilva 10/01/18

Management

Day One: Committing to a broader definition of leadership

By James daSilva 08/30/18

Communication

Alan Alda and the difference between communicating and communications

By James daSilva 07/31/18

Marketing

SmartBrief’s top supply chain stories of Q1 2018

By James daSilva 04/06/18

Leadership

ACC’s Cal Dooley discusses what the chemical industry and regulators have learned from Hurricane Harvey

By James daSilva 03/23/18

Energy

GlobalChem 2018: Plastics in oceans is a problem everyone wants to solve

By James daSilva 03/08/18

Energy

ACC’s Dooley reiterates committment to TSCA implementation

By James daSilva 03/03/18

Leadership

For distributors, the time to transform is now

By James daSilva 02/02/18

Leadership

Lessons in public speaking from Dot Foods

By James daSilva 02/01/18

Management

Is the problem incompetence or lack of training?

By James daSilva 01/29/18

Management

Do you need others to lose for you to win?

By James daSilva 12/23/17

Leadership

What SmartBrief’s top leadership posts of 2017 tell us

By James daSilva 12/21/17

Management

How NPD Group’s CEO leads and communicates

By James daSilva 12/06/17

Management

What will you do when things go bad?

By James daSilva 10/31/17

Management

Here’s why you can’t fix your culture problems

By James daSilva 08/01/17

Management

There are no quick fixes or magical tricks

By James daSilva 07/06/17

Inspiration

How to succeed instead of barking up the wrong tree

By James daSilva 05/17/17

Inspiration

Mentoring is just another way of helping

By James daSilva 05/02/17

Communication

“Radical Candor” author Kim Scott on overcoming your fear of feedback

By James daSilva 05/02/17

Management

What are your traditions? What do they say about you?

By James daSilva 03/07/17

Leadership

Lessons from Stephen M.R. Covey on trust

By James daSilva 02/11/17

Management

Stop caring about your legacy

By James daSilva 01/31/17

Productivity

SmartBrief’s guide to work productivity

By James daSilva 01/15/17

Leadership

What SmartBrief’s top leadership posts of 2016 tell us

By James daSilva 12/17/16

Management

Elections end, but your life’s work does not

By James daSilva 11/09/16

Leadership

Why Exelon needed to focus on talent to win at business

By James daSilva 11/09/16

Management

Build your career through hard work, courage and accountability

By James daSilva 09/30/16

Marketing

How Bumble built a new way to date — and hopes to create the new LinkedIn

By James daSilva 09/28/16

Finance

How finance is making diversity and inclusion a priority

By James daSilva 09/27/16

Finance

Jack Dorsey on childhood, Twitter and what’s next for Square

By James daSilva 09/27/16

Careers

Being “Scrappy” and why success lies in how you prepare

By James daSilva 09/18/16

Management

This post is about Tim Duncan, but it’s also about culture and competitiveness

By James daSilva 07/12/16

Management

Questions that actually lead to good answers

By James daSilva 07/06/16

Careers

#SHRM16: Making personal branding practical instead of a movement

By James daSilva 06/22/16

HR

#SHRM16: The mission for HR today

By James daSilva 06/21/16

Leadership

We’ve made SmartBrief on Leadership even better

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Embracing change

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Communication

Startups and regulators will never understand each other. That’s OK

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Inspiration

You can win through trust, values and integrity — if you work hard enough

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Management

Office design keeps changing but we still don’t like it

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Strategy

Dow Chemical’s Carol Williams, on leadership and innovation

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Management

Q-and-A: Randy Speight, on CHEMTREC’s role in chemical-transportation safety

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

What polyurethanes and innovative success have in common

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from CPI: Jim Carroll on not being scared to innovate

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from CPI: Who had the year’s top innovation?

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Marketing Strategy

From CPI: Win the online discussion by playing nice

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from CPI: Sustainability’s slow, subtle march

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Restaurant and Foodservice

How the restroom symbolizes your whole operation

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Q-and-A: James Epstein-Reeves discusses corporate sustainability

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Management

Spotlight on Association Leadership: American Cleaning Institute President and CEO Ernie Rosenberg

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

ARPA-E makes the case for business-first government programs

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Sustainability lessons from Wal-Mart’s former CEO

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

Bill Gates on America’s “crazy” lack of energy funding

By James daSilva 05/26/16

Leadership

From ARPA-E: Shale natural gas is king, but what happens next?

By James daSilva 05/26/16