Leadership and Managing


Recent Leadership and Managing Articles

Someone Is Taking Credit For Your Idea! Now What?

Giving credit where credit's due is essential to business success. Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen.  Read more

Tony Hsieh's Rule for Success: Maximize Serendipity

Create the opportunity for meaningful collisions, says the Zappos CEO. Then just watch as the best things unfold.  Read more

3 Rules to Work By: Elizabeth Grace Saunders

This time-management whiz says the real reason entrepreneurs feel time-strapped is simple: They honor everyone else's priorities. Here's how to change the wa...  Read more

7 Reasons You Need a Mentor

And as your venture grows, odds are good that you'll need help with different things in broad categories like strategy, finance, people and product.  Read more

Small Business Optimism Rises

Small business owners sense the recovery is here to stay, but they're still cautious on hiring and worried about health care costs.  Read more

4 Ways Women in Combat Will Change Business

It's not just about military front lines. Today's female infantry soldier will be tomorrow's entrepreneur and business leader.  Read more

3 Unconventional Strategies for Fast Growth

As you develop an execution plan for your long-term growth strategy, you may have to disrupt the status quo.  Read more

7 Signs You're Ready to Be Your Own Boss

Before they were great leaders, they were great employees. Most accomplished entrepreneurs and executives built their success on a solid foundation.  Read more

'We Had No Idea What the Numbers Would Look Like' 

To get customers to come back, Wayfair co-founder Niraj Shah had to reorganize his 200 home goods websites.  Watch video

Yahoo Is Trying to Lure Back Former Employees: Should You?

Sometimes employees who leave or take a break return more qualified than before. In Yahoo's case, it smacks of desperation.  Read more

For Small Business, the Inauguration (Finally) Brings Certainty

When it comes to the economy, you know what the government will be doing over the next two years: not very much.  Read more

When Leaders Flame Out

There's only one right way to ask for a second chance.  Read more

Want a Successful Business? Don't Take It Personally

A business must be impersonal to the one who builds it, and entirely personal to the one who buys into it.  Read more

Worn-out Employees? 5 Ways to Crank Up the Energy

Maintaining employee motivation when expectations are high is extremely challenging. Here are five ways to generate renewed energy in your workplace.  Read more

It's Not Me, It's You: 5 Ways To Avoid Another Horrible Boss

A bad boss can drive you to the brink. How to make sure you never have one again.  Read more

John Mackey: Learn to See the Big Picture

The founder of Whole Foods says the kind of intelligence that's helped him most in business is systems intelligence. Here's why.  Read more

One Practical Way to Upgrade Company Culture

For one day out of every month, don't focus on planning or executing anything. Focus on this instead.  Read more

Are You Too Productive?

There is such a thing as too much productivity and efficiency, say neuroscientists, at least when it crowds all play out of your day.  Read more

Want Loyal Customers? Compete on Value, Not Price

Your customers care a lot about factors other than cost. Here's how quality, experience, and consistency can work for you.  Read more

Steve Jobs's Widow Launches Petition for Immigration Reform

Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, is pushing hard for the passage of the Dream Act. Here's why it's good for entrepreneurs.  Read more

Weed Out Entitled Employees: 3 Ways

Even if your company is a great place to work, not all employees will sufficiently appreciate it. Take a stand.  Read more

Secret to Increased Productivity: Don't Come to the Office

If your employees don't work from home, you're missing out on tons of benefits. Guidelines to make a work-from-home program work.  Read more

Feeling Stuck? 3 Ways to Get Moving

Do you feel like you have stalled or reached your limit? Here are three ways to break through and get things moving onward and upward.  Read more

What Dell's Attempt to Go Private Says About the Public Markets

As Dell becomes only the most recent company trying to flee the public markets, you have to wonder why.  Read more

Entrepreneurs Have Better Sex

I admit, my evidence is purely anecdotal. But I think you'll agree with me here: There are certain commonalities between making money and making love.  Read more