How to Build Great Collaborations
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When to Listen to Your Fear
Self-belief can motivate you to succeed. If you lack it, you may need more resources, experience, or strategy. 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
6 Ways to Ruin a Company Offsite Meeting
Still doing trust falls and scavenger hunts? If you want results, here's how not to run a team meeting. Read more
11 Easy Ways to Make Work Fun
If your employees aren't having fun, they're probably not performing at their highest level. So ease up already and try one of these tactics. Read more
How Twitter Can Improve Your Management (in 140 Characters or Less)
Communication has been streamlined to short messages. Your management should be too. 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
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
Know Your Limitations; You'll Lead Better
The best leaders recognize their weaknesses--and struggle through them. Read more
Bring Out the Nerf Guns at Orientation
When on-boarding new hires, we follow these three guidelines to get our employees behind our (epic) mission, and understand our quirky culture. Read more
Danger! Don't Hire People Just Like You
Commonalities may be comfortable, but they also create blind spots. You want lieutenants who provoke feuds and dissent. Read more
How Spanx Grew 
Sara Blakely talks about how she picks team members, handles public relations, and avoids paying for advertising. Watch video
Boards: The Right Person To Lead One
The best chairman or chairwoman is a mentor, sounding board, and listener. Read more
Don't Like All Your Employees?
That might be a good thing. Here's why. (Hint: It has to do with your brain--and theirs.) Read more
Be the Beatles, Not a Flock of Seagulls
The Beatles didn't just have musical talents. The band's longevity and success was largely the result of group dynamics--the same ones start-ups require. Read more
Use Improv to Brainstorm Effectively
At Kohort, we take a cue from theater and comedy to generate new ideas--and enhance morale. 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
How To Make Your Meetings Count
Effective collaboration doesn't just happen. The key to a high-performance team is brain science. Read more
Keeping Morale High When Salaries Aren’t
Building a stable team is critical to building success. Here's how to inspire morale and loyalty when you can’t compensate competitively. Read more
The Power of A Dissenting Voice
Be wary of unanimous decisions and bold when you face them. Neuroscience and sociology, and a recent meeting I attended, underscore this point. Read more
Improve Sales by Boosting Collaboration
Keith Ferrazzi offers tips for getting your team to work together more quickly and effectively. Read more
Crowdsource Product Ideas from All Your Employees
It's not just for marketing. Crowdsourcing is an efficient way to take advantage of cognitive diversity. Read more
Ikea's Former CEO on How to Collaborate
A variety of strategies can help your team work well together. But one is more important than the rest: Get rid of the soloists. Read more
You're Wired to Be a Leader
You were born with seven brain attributes for effective management. How much you turn the volume up or down depends on you--and what you want to accomplish. Read more
The Business of a Hockey Game at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia
Here's a look at the companies that provide the scoreboards, displays, shielding, and safety nets that make it possible for the Philadelphia Flyers to entert... Read more
Want to Know What Your Employees Really Think?
Consider staging a Comedy Central-style celebrity roast of your top-selling product. Read more
How to Build an Insanely Great Founding Team
Six leadership traits to look for in co-founders when you start a business 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
Linhart Public Relations
Sharon Linhart understands the value of spending time with her staff outside of the officeâ€"fostering friendly relationships drives the success of the company. Read more
7 Tips for Using Personality Tests to Hire
Personality testing can be very useful for small businesses, where the impact of hiring the wrong worker has a disproportionate effect. Read more
The Art of Team Building
How do you encourage your employees to work together? Two executives examine the idea of collective leadership in their new book, As One . Read more
Doing Company Community Service Abroad
Here's how Better World Books sends employees abroad to help its nonprofit partners. The experience combines social entrepreneurship with team building. Read more
Review: Personality Poker
Author Stephen Shapiro shares his technique to identify your personality and where you best fit in an organization. Read more
An Office of Rock Stars
Why M5 Networks hired School of Rock to teach its employees Read more
How to Create Team Building Exercises
Companies with engaged work forces perform better. Try team building exercises to re-energize the staff and improve communication. Read more
