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At L.A.'s worst high schools, gangs controlled the bathrooms and students regularly set hanging artwork on fire. Today, Green Dot Public Schools have dramatically increased graduation rates and college preparedness at a fraction of the cost.

Are your meetings lacking focus? Learn the art of running an efficient meeting using these five tips.

Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook--and himself--for success. From studying leaders he admired to taking elocution lessons, Zuckerberg made his evolution into a world-class CEO a personal project

I am sitting in a bakery minutes from my house, steps away from the train station, watching still-sleepy counter workers shuffling brioches and muffins to a rising flow of customers. I shouldn’t be here. I should be on that train now leaving the station, heading into New York City.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint. PowerPoint has been around for a quarter century.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint.

So Punxsutawney Phil says there will be six more weeks of winter. Who cares? This weather has really messed up businesses all around the country

Before you offer your MVP that VIP parking space, check why rewarding with a perk can often have the opposite effect. I started a new job and was given a reserved parking spot right by the main entrance

Great businesses succeed by motivating people with the straight facts. There are four ways to get the truth out there.

These tips on improving communication during office meetings may even elevate your standing at home. We all have experienced the regret of a wasted hour (or several) in an ineffective meeting.

You have to be yourself to make your own way in the business world. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Free Agent Nation (2001) by Daniel H. Pink.

There’s a fundamental difference between the rebels of the past and today: Generation Y are born entrepreneurs. Every generation rebels against their parents. When parents approve, their offspring disapproves.

I wasn’t paying attention as I took a diagonal shortcut across Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square this August.

Want to plan your day, your meetings, and your commute better? Factor in how your body and brain may make bad decisions after being worn down from making the right moves earlier in the day. Did you read that weighty, informative article on "decision fatigue" in The New York Times magazine last weekend

Do you consider employee communication a high priority? Studies show that companies with highly effective internal communication programs are more likely to provide a significant return to shareholders and are also more likely to have higher levels of employee engagement and lower employee turnover rates