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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

Training CEOs to Be Better Leaders

Former Navy SEAL Rob Roy is on a mission to toughen up American CEOs.  Read more

The Characteristics of a Great Leader

Researchers Maia Young, Michael W. Morris, and Vicki M. Scherwin say some leaders have a managerial mystique.  Read more

Leading Through Uncertainty: Lessons in Managing From the U.S. Military

In times of uncertainty or crisis, does your leadership style step up to the challenge? Chad Storlie, a retired U.S. Army Reserve Special Forces officer, say...  Read more

9 Tips on Workplace Etiquette for the Boss

From the office Christmas party to friending employees on social media, here are nine new and old etiquette rules you need to commit to memory.  View slideshow

Frank Campanaro of Trillacorpe Construction

When Wall Street crashed and credit lines dried up, Campanaro relied on his military training to lead his company through the tough times.  Read more

Army Lessons That Apply to Small Business

How former Lieutenant General William G. Pagonis translates what he learned in the Army to steer logistics at Sears and now at an Uno Chicago Grill and horse...  Read more

Learning to Communicate With Employees

Cal McAllister’s staff was unhappy and confused, and he had to take responsibility.  Read more

The Humility Imperative: CEOs, Keep Your Arrogance in Check

Dave Balter's ego almost ruined BzzAgent, his fourth start-up, before Tesco's Dunnhumby bought it for a reported $60 million last month. Here, he implores en...  Read more

6 Essential Skills Every Entrepreneur Should Have

There's no doubt that entrepreneurs have the passion and mindset to develop innovative business ideas. What they often lack are the skills required to effect...  Read more

Forget About Best Practices

Author Carol Sanford says start-up founders need to stop following organizational rules and start thinking for themselves.  Read more

7 Leadership Lessons From an NBA Coach

Avery Johnson, coach of the New Jersey Nets, shares his keys to success in management, regardless of your industry.  Read more

How to Change Your Management Style

You've identified that your style of management isn't working, but how do you effectively make the change without hurting your organization?  Read more

Are You CEO Material?

Norm Brodsky gives tips on how to determine if you are the right person to take your company to the next level.  View slideshow

Competitive Intelligence: How to Make People Talk

Using psychology to get people to open up about their businesses  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Founders' Dilemmas

A course that focuses on people problems instead of the strategy-innovation-finance trifecta  Read more

Johnson Says There's No 'Magic' to Business Success

The basketball legend-turned-entrepreneur answers Inc. Twitter followers' and Facebook fans' questions about life on and off the court.  Read more

Breaking 3 Workplace Taboos

At LoveMachine, Philip Rosedale has created a culture that is all about transparency.  Read more

The Truly Global Business Plan

Start-ups such as Somnio and Lookout Mobile Security are working on global expansion right from Day One.  Read more

Elevator Pitch: Smackages

Smackages gives women free makeup samples online. Can it get $1 million for its own makeover?  Read more

How Would You Sell Custom Board Shorts?

Four entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies to Shortomatic.com.  Read more

How to Create a Killer E-mail Newsletter

Nine tips for designing an e-mail newsletter that won't have customers reaching for the Unsubscribe button  Read more

Peter Guber on the Power of Effective Communicators

In his new book, Tell to Win , the Hollywood producer and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment addresses the importance of storytelling in business.  Read more