How to Lead


Recent How to Lead Articles

Use Video to Inspire Your Team

Employees are looking for motivation. Here's how video can be an effective way to deliver it to them.  Read more

10 Things Bosses Never Tell Employees

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

Don't Underestimate 'Tech Block'

Make sure your new hires are not only computer literate, but tech-savvy. Here's why.  Read more

Are You a Psycho Boss?

A recent study shows that you are four times more likely to find a psychopath in the boardroom than on the street. So what?  Read more

Best Time to Start a Company

Don't wait. Here are seven reasons to launch a venture today.  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

What Makes a Company Resilient?

You can't stop really bad things--like Sept. 11th--from happening, but you can be prepared for them. Here are 7 ways.  Read more

Lessons in Leadership: How Lincoln Became America's Greatest President

It wasn't Abraham Lincoln's strengths but the self-discipline with which he used those strengths for the right purpose.  Read more

Business Partners: 3 Essential Ingredients

One individual (or four) may embody these characteristics. In one way or another, you need these three traits to make your business thrive.  Read more

8 Tacky Business Moves to Avoid

Don't be that person. Seriously.  Read more

Banish Your Negativity Bias

Your brain is wired for negativity--but it's probably not helping you. Here's how to fight back.  Read more

6 Simple Business Truths From Mom

Essential lessons about life turned out to be lessons for business.  Read more

Know Your Limitations; You'll Lead Better

The best leaders recognize their weaknesses--and struggle through them.  Read more

2 Factors That Define Great Leaders

How setting an objective and influencing people will define your leadership success.  Read more

4 Rewards That Are More Powerful Than Money

They reinforce positive behaviors, boost motivation, and build employees' self-esteem. Bonus: They won't cost you anything.  Read more

Spur Your Brain to Innovate

Tips to fuel creativity and invention--geared to your brain type.  Read more

5 Tech Rules Entrepreneurs Should Live By

How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation.  Read more

8 Things Your Employees Need Most

Forget about raises and better benefits. Those are important -- but this is what your staff really wants.  Read more

How to Be the Most Memorable Person in the Room

How will people remember you long after you've found success? You can only hope it goes something like this.  Read more

How Heroes Inspire You To Be Your Best

When you study the lives of great leaders--their actions, thoughts, choices, struggles, failures, and triumphs--it unconsciously motivates you to be your bes...  Read more

Can This CEO 'Scale'?

You'll find out relatively early in the life of a new venture. Here's why.  Read more

Your Company Has a Perception Problem

Here's how to find balance between external perceptions and the internal realities of the current state of your business.  Read more

What You Can Learn From Romney's Inauthenticity

Some say the presidential candidate struggles with inauthenticity. Here's how you can avoid the same fate.  Read more

Start a Killer Restaurant: 6 Tips

Advice from a white guy in Texas who became an award-winning sushi chef and restaurant owner.  Read more

How Much Success Tax Do You Pay?

And how much should you want to pay? The answer: More.  Read more

The Secret to Team Collaboration: Individuality

Let those on your team do their own thing. A new book supports this claim, as does a quote from Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer.  Read more

7 Things Your Employees Never Want to Hear

Sometimes, what you say can and will work against you.  Read more

Why You Need A Leadership Coach

Your reports are not your friends. To get the truth about how you're running your company, you'll need someone with an outside perspective.  Read more

Lead Like College Football Coach Hayden Fry

Cultivate those below you, encourage their advancement, and create a strong legacy. Here's how.  Read more

Why the Real Secrets of Success Are in Your Past

When most executives are looking to the future for their success, maybe it's better to first look back at your past. Here's why.  Read more

6 Reasons Why Your Best Employees Will Leave

When it's not about money, your star employees are probably jumping ship for one of these reasons.  Read more

How To Lead with Empathy (and When Not To)

Empathy can help you be an effective, and understanding decision-maker. Not always.  Read more

More Cash for Start-ups?

New legislation could expand crowdfunding options through websites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.  Read more

Carol's Daughter Founder Lisa Price Lets Go of the Reins 

Lisa Price, CEO of Carol's Daughter, talks frankly about how she transitioned from mixing beauty products in her kitchen to helming a team of experts who do ...  Watch video

How to Lead With Purpose

The purpose-driven company is led by someone who has a reliable inner compass guiding them. John Baldoni asks: What's your direction?  Read more