OWNER'S MANUAL  

Jeff Haden learned much of what he knows about business and technology as he worked his way up in the manufacturing industry from forklift driver to manager of a 250-employee book plant. Everything else he picks up from ghostwriting books for some of the smartest innovators and leaders he knows in business. He has written more than 30 non-fiction books, including four Business and Investing titles that reached #1 on Amazon's bestseller list. He'd tell you which ones, but then he'd have to kill you. @jeff_haden


How to Conduct the Perfect Job Interview

The stakes are simply too high for anything less. Here's your complete guide to interviewing the right way.  Read story

14 Simple Ways to Get Considerably More Done

Don't think it's possible because you're already working in overdrive? Here's a new way to look at your to-do list.  Read story

Compared to This, Your Mission Statement Sucks

The mission statement at this company might possibly be the one by which all others should be judged.  Read story

How to Get Through the Entrepreneur's Middle Mile

In between the initial rush of your launch and the ultimate culmination of your success lies a long, tough road. Stay the course with these tips.  Read story

7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group

If this guy can build a thriving group on industrial water treatment (no, really), you can be master of your own niche on LinkedIn.  Read story

8 Ways to Be a Truly Memorable Boss

Employees don't leave jobs; they leave bad bosses--and even mediocre ones. Don't be that kind of boss.  Read story

Bad Day? 8 Ways to Feel Better About Yourself

If trying to think yourself into a better mood fails, try doing something instead. Here are eight ideas.  Read story

7 Things Marketers Should Know About Tumblr

As the 32nd most popular website in the world, Tumblr is a big opportunity. But you can't approach it as you would other marketing strategies.  Read story

The Bootstrapper's Bargain

Gleb Budman and his team launched Backblaze, they promised customers unlimited backup storage for $5 a month. Crazy?  Read story

How to Make Next Tax Season Less Painful

Where accounting headaches are concerned, take the right medicine for a long-term cure.  Read story

Inside a Completely Transparent Company

At Buffer, employees know everything about everyone else: how much they make, what their equity is worth--even how much they sleep.  Read story

10 Essential Online Tools You Should Be Using

Check out a slew of apps to streamline a range of functions, including project management, customer service, social media, and email.  Read story

What's Your Mission?

If you don't know what your mission is, all the charm in the world won't inspire people to follow you.  Read story

Still Partners (in Life and Business) After 20 Years

Thinking about starting a business with your significant other? Read this first.  Read story

6 Non-Business Books That Will Make You Smarter

Need a new approach to how you view your business? Try reading the books most other businesspeople aren't reading.  Read story

8 Things You Should Not Do Every Day

It's for your own good. Cut these things out of your day and you'll see gains in productivity--not to mention happiness.  Read story

Easy Ways to Up Your Social Media Game

Sprout Social CEO Justyn Howard explains what it takes to truly engage customers--and build better relationships via social media.  Read story

4 Ways to Get a New Employee Off to the Perfect Start

That interview you had right before you made the job offer? It's not enough. Here are four things you must do on a new hire's first day.  Read story

9 Habits of People Who Build Extraordinary Relationships

The most extraordinary professional relationships are built by ordinary actions like these.  Read story

A Job Listing Should Be Like a Love Letter

You're not looking for generic employees. So why are you writing generic job listings?  Read story

An App to Bring the Supply Chain into the 21st Century

It's a simple idea: a 3D search tool for industrial parts. But it could have huge implications for a process that has been costly, inefficient, and opaque.  Read story

Why Going 'Green' Won't Be Optional in the Future

The Honest Company co-founder Christopher Gavigan explains why cleaner, greener products won't be a competitive edge--they'll be the cost of entry soon.  Read story

The Secret to Getting More (and Better) Sleep

What if you could make better decisions, remember more, and get more done? It's possible, but you need more sleep. Here's how to get it.  Read story

8 Most Common Complaints About the Boss

What are you doing that really drives your employees crazy? You might want to give this list a close read.  Read story

Most Contentious 4-Letter Words in the Office?

Try bringing up these two words at your next meeting: One of the most surprising--and polarizing--debates may ensue.  Read story

8 Promises You Should Make Every Day

Make a difference--at work, in your personal life, and in the lives of others. Say these vows to yourself daily--and then follow through.  Read story

The Stuff Strong Relationships Are Made Of

The best way to get help is to give it. But there's one other step that's just as crucial to building strong working relationships.  Read story

Google's 10 Best Mobile Apps

Ten apps you should be using--or, at the very least, learning from.  Read story

8 Business Principles That Never Go Out of Style

Want trendy, flavor-of-the-month management ideas? You won't find 'em on this list.  Read story

Best Way to Start, Well, Anything

The road to success starts with asking--and answering--one simple question.  Read story

14 Revealing Interview Questions

Smart entrepreneurs from a variety of industries share the interview questions that tell them everything they need to know about a candidate.  Read story

Unexpected Key to This Start-up's Success: Southwest Airlines

In Confirmation.com's early days, the start-up made an unusual decision about how to grow: It went where Southwest flew. Here's why it worked.  Read story

The Fashion Week You've Never Heard Of

The runways in New York, Paris, and Milan may get all the attention, but most of the industry's business happens at a different event.  Read story

11 Life-Changing Questions You Must Ask Yourself

Ask yourself these questions every day. Without fail. And then, based on your answers, take action.  Read story

An Acquisition Without the Acrimony?

Lots of acquisitions lead to redundancies, lay-offs, and ultimately unhappy marriages. But they don't have to be that way.  Read story

The Best Content Marketing Is Free

You could outsource this marketing, or you could tap a rich--but free--source of content right in front of you.  Read story

Got Funding? 7 Things to Do Now

It's too easy to lose focus after reaching this all-important milestone. Stay the course postfunding with these tips.  Read story

7 Qualities of Uber-Productive People

They work hard, and they work smart. But highly productive people also tend to think about their work differently from everyone else.  Read story

Whom You Sit Next to Matters More Than You Think

Chicago incubator 1871 operates on the assumption that brilliant tech ideas get better only when they're in proximity to others.  Read story

9 Hidden Qualities of Stellar Bosses

What your employees see you doing matters. But often it's what they can't see that matters more.  Read story