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Recent Great Leaders Articles

Great Bosses Don’t Go Undercover

If you need a disguise to learn the truth about your company, you're doing something wrong. Here's how to do it right.  Read more

The Key to Start-up Success? Be Boring

You may not live for accounting or operations details. But ignoring them (ahem, Groupon) will put you in a world of hurt.  Read more

Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week

You may think you're getting more accomplished by working longer hours. You're probably wrong.  Read more

5 Things Great Mentors Do

Your employees can achieve greater things with your help than they can alone--if you give them a chance.  Read more

Save a Struggling Business: 8 Tips

Starting a company from scratch has its appeal, but fixing a broken company can be more profitable... and satisfying.  Read more

CEOs: 5 Simple Reasons Why You Should Tweet

No more excuses. Tweeting, even for c-level execs, can be surprisingly productive. Here's why.  Read more

Are You an Overbearing Boss?

Find out if you are a bossy boss--and, if so, what you can do about it.  Read more

Toughen Up, Ladies: 7 Ways to Be a Better Negotiator

Studies show women lack confidence when it comes to asking for what they want. Here's how to get it back.  Read more

The Worst Kind of Question You Can Ask

Stop sucking all the creativity out of the room. When you want ideas and feedback, don't ask for them like this.  Read more

12 Ways to Attack Any Challenge

Stuck in a rut? Need to accomplish the impossible? Step right up. Here's how to get started.  Read more

Great Leaders Make Room for Up-and-Comers

In 1925, leadoff hitter Wally Pipp stepped aside because he knew the Yankees needed a rising star, Lou Gehrig, up at bat. What a legacy.  Read more

5 Things Remarkable Bosses Never Do

What you don't do can sometimes make a bigger impact than what you do.  Read more

How Not to Crash & Burn in Business

Running a business is like flying a plane: Lots of decisions to make and zero time to analyze them. Improve your gut instincts with these tips.  Read more

6 Ways Successful People Stand Out

Substance trumps style in the long run. Here's how to make the kind of impression that lasts.  Read more

Howard Schultz: What It Takes to Win 

In 2008 Howard Schultz returned to Starbucks and steered it through the financial crisis. Last year, Schultz sat down with Inc.'s Lewis Schiff.  Watch video

Power of the Quiet Entrepreneur

Why you don't have to be loud to be a great leader.  Read more

How to Keep a Superstar Employee Happy

Can't offer extra money or a better title? You may not need either to get your top employee to stick around.  Read more

Without This Skill, You Won't Succeed

It doesn't matter what industry you're in. This is the one thing all successful people know how to do well.  Read more

The Difference Every Boss Can Make

How seemingly insignificant moments can have a lasting impact on your employees' lives.  Read more

How to Build a Great Team With Imperfect People

Your goal isn’t to ensure every employee is great; it's to ensure that collectively they'll be great. (There’s a big difference.)  Read more

The Best Way to Fire an Employee

These tips won't make it any easier on the employee (or you) but they will make the process go as smoothly as it can.  Read more

5 Employee Morale Killers

Guaranteed methods to boost attrition and sap employees' motivation.  Read more

Read Obituaries. And Lead to the Fullest

Write your own eulogy today. Reflect on your life so far, and whether you're satisfied with the path you're on.  Read more

5 Things You Should Say to Your Colleagues Today

They're small things--but they can completely change someone's day.  Read more

The Antidote to Insecurity

Give in to your insecurity and the problem will only get worse. Here's how to confront it head on.  Read more

How to Avoid Confrontation… and Still Succeed

Conflicts rarely end well, so it's natural to want to avoid them. But you can't hide from them forever.  Read more

How (and When) to Give Advice

Great leaders reserve their advice for the people and situations in which it will do the most good. And they never forget one key secret.  Read more

Guy Kawasaki's Social Media Secret

The founder of Alltop.com explains his social media strategy (and tells us why Google+ may overtake Facebook).  Read more

Leadership Lessons from The Iron Lady

Determination to succeed was vital to Margaret Thatcher's drive, but left unchecked it led to her undoing. Oscar-nominated Meryl Streep personifies this lead...  Read more

Layoffs: What to Say When Employees Ask

You want to tell them what you know--but can't. And you can't stay silent either. There's really only one thing you can say.  Read more

9 Things You Should Never Ask Employees to Do

Kill the post-work social events -- among other things -- that might be rubbing your staff the wrong way.  Read more

Chip Conley: How I Overcome Fear

The founder of Joie de Vivre hotels on his new book, Emotional Equations , and the trick he uses to combat paralyzing anxiety.  Read more

10 Quick Tips to Become a Better Writer

It's not about being a highly skilled artist; you just just need to become a better technician with words. Here's how.  Read more

10 Things Bosses Never Tell Employees

Confessions you wish you could make to your team but can't.  Read more

8 Nuggets of Wisdom Every Entrepreneur Needs

Advice to help you be more confident, manage more effectively, and sell more than you think you can.  Read more