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Ask yourself these questions to identify the gears that drive your company culture, and what you can do to make it exceptional. All workplaces are different, but in exceptional ones, all staffers work together and leadership is in-sync with employees. The culture breeds this

Author Laura Vanderkam reveals how highly successful people put their pre-breakfast hours to use and explains how you can be more like them. The day may have 24 hours of equivalent length but author Laura Vanderkam says not every hour is created equal

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.

Everyone wants to use the latest technology in the workplace. Here's how to determine whether a new item will be a tool or a toy. When your sales people come to you with the "We need to get ..." requests for new technology, what do you hear?

Since when does a mea culpa deserve praise? JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon shows how low the leadership bar can go. If you watch certain financial news shows you'd think that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is a genius.

Spend time recruiting the right people. Then spend just as much time making sure you keep them. When an employee leaves Beryl Health--voluntarily or involuntarily--I generally believe it's the right thing for both parties

It won't get you anywhere to gloss over the challenges of a new business venture. Three reasons why. Every day business leaders launch challenging, often risky, initiatives

Why you should prioritize talent and ethics above everything--and everyone--else. Any business owner thinking of bringing her children into the business must watch the unfolding Murdoch epic with fear and loathing. This week, James Murdoch is being grilled by the Leveson inquiry which was set up to investigate the British media in light of the phone hacking scandal that has rocked British journalism, led to several arrests, and the resignation of James Murdoch from his United Kingdom board and executive roles

How can you get your employees whipped into a state of maximized productivity? Follow these 4 tips. In Start-up Land, the phrase, "it's not my job" is like a four-letter word.

A major telecommunications company once commissioned some research to find out which attributes best predicted long-term leadership success.

It's not enough to have a great product anymore. Consumers want to buy into company culture

Tina Fey’s "Bossypants" was the inspiration for Ask.com to try out improv techniques to invigorate its team. Here's what happened when they got off their duffs and found their inner monkey saddles. When we last checked in with Ask.com, the grandaddy of question and answer platforms was changing direction.

Nine ways to know if the job seeker you're talking to has the personality, risk profile, and skill set for an entrepreneurial venture. They smile, they laugh on cue, and they have a rehearsed response for every conventional interview question. They profess to be entrepreneurs, but are they actually wantrapreneurs

Great strategic thinkers have a gift for seeing threats and opportunities before anyone else.

In a 1995 interview, the mastermind behind Dell Computer reveals how he went from dorm room to industry leader. In 1995, I spent an hour talking to Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, about how he built his company from a startup in his dorm room into one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world