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Pitching your company to investors daunting. We know that firsthand.

Employees need to know how they are doing--especially (but not only) if they're underperforming. What may seem like common sense sometimes gets overlooked when it comes to managing people.

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“Forget about earthquakes and fires; everybody has a story about how bad people can be in the workplace," says Krista Tippett, host of the nationally syndicated radio show On Being.

"For better or worse, the word 'innovation' has come to represent so much that it seems to have lost most of its meaning," says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate , a company that helps brands create content on a social scale. So a few years ago, Brier decided to read some of the early writings of Josef Schumpter, the first person to really talk about innovation in the field. "Reading his stuff really opened my eyes, as he had a very specific definition of innovation: The commercialization of an invention," says Brier.

What are you doing to maintain and strengthen your relationships with your key accounts? In the old days, you developed relationships with customers through shared experiences. Golf, hunting, fishing, sporting events, meals–all bonding opportunities.

If you want to be appreciated at work, make sure everyone else feels welcome. Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.

If you want to be appreciated at work, make sure everyone else feels welcome. Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.

Moving from a big company to a startup is a big transition. Here's why an entrepreneur might -- or might not -- be interested in you. In the last few months, I’ve had an unusual number of calls from people who have decided that they want to leave their gigs at big companies and join a smaller one instead.

The pressure to discount can be overwhelming. These conversational tricks can help you push back

Oftentimes when people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I work in advertising, they ask, “Don’t you wish you got to be an ad man in the golden era, like on Mad Men?” I usually smile and respond with “What makes you think the golden era was 40 years ago? We are living in the golden era right now--the most exciting and unpredictable time in marketing history." We are witnessing a complete social transformation. The entire industry has been flipped on its head

The last thing you want to do is seem like you're taking sides. Here's how to handle interpersonal problems more gracefully. Dear Jeff, One of my employees complained about how another employee treats him.

Email marketing fails when a message contains just biz-blab and fake emotion. Here's how to write a note that generates real leads. One of the weirdest phenomenons I see: otherwise articulate people who lapse into biz-blab and jargon as soon they try to write an email pitch.

Email marketing fails when a message contains just biz-blab and fake emotion. Here's how to write a note that generates real leads.

There's often a gap between identifying what you naturally gravitate toward and gain energy from and how that translates into your full-time work. Take a deep breath and dive in with these three steps that'll start closing it