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

Entrepreneurship can be a lonely business, so it's important to get lots of feedback from customers and employees. But what kind of feedback do you really want, and how do you get it

Today Apple has an earnings call for its first quarter results for the fiscal year. They'll cover the all-important holiday season sales window, and could be seen as the first real moment when new CEO Tim Cook expresses his leadership of the company that was Steve Jobs's baby until recently.

Everyone has a success story and a failure story.

A good executive coach is someone who sees you in action day in and day out and is highly motivated to help you improve. Who does that sound like?

As part of our Leadership Hall of Fame series, we continue our fresh look at The Tipping Point with an interview of author Malcolm Gladwell.

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The purpose-driven company is lead by someone who has a reliable inner compass guiding them.

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi. Penguin Press, 2011 [More]

The Apple co-founder passed away October 5, but our digital lives leaped ahead dramatically as a result of his leadership [More]

Former Navy SEAL Rob Roy is on a mission to toughen up American CEOs. For Rob Roy, warfare is more than just a business metaphor. A former Navy SEAL, Roy runs SOT-G, a Coronado, California, company that puts clients, most of them business leaders, through a hellish 80-hour leadership course inspired by military combat prep

...as former Campbell's Soup Company CEO Doug Conant brought the brand back by encouraging every possibility. It was 2001 when Doug Conant became CEO of the Campbell Soup Company—he was just the eleventh man to hold the title in the company's 132-year history.

Recently, the Pivot Conference team set out to learn more about the state of social advertising and the future ahead by conducting an industry survey of 230 brand managers, executives, and marketing professionals. We will release the full report during the week of July 25th. Not all of the insights we learned will make it into the final report

I recently ran into an entrepreneur on whose board I sat during my venture capital years. We awkwardly shook hands and then quickly slipped into a conversation that seemed to pick back up on the last one we had years ago. Back when I was the VC and he was the entrepreneur, we had been on opposite sides of a tense situation.

I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors the year's finest film. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation honors the year's best fiction