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A brain researcher divulges six interview questions--and other clues--to help distinguish innovators from ordinary workers. Many of the resumes that cross my desk are white pieces of paper that list education, experiences, and skills. Since they're typically from traditionally-minded people who prefer not to call attention to themselves, I don't expect anything else.

Our distrust is very expensive.--Ralph Waldo Emerson As the Susan G.

When a marketing initiative fell through, my husband and I were left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in inventory. Here's how we turned things around.

When filling a top leadership slot, these are the blunders you don't want to make.

Throwing a few blocks can help you shine more than carrying the ball. We all love overnight celebrity stories about breakout stars who suddenly catapult to the forefront of a scene and completely own it out of sheer talent and brilliance. Sure, it's inspiring and romantic, but not always the case

These days, if you can't lead your company through rapid, continual change, you can't lead. It is easy to change things. It is hard to change people

Managers may call them "best practices," but employees see them as annoying hindrances to good work and desire autonomy instead. "Best practices," as a term, should speak for itself.

With the current brouhaha over Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s defunding of breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, the backlash, the reversal, and the exposure of the source of the initial decision, it’s obvious that Planned Parenthood is in a constant storm of contentious political struggle (even if the most recent dust-up was an unplanned branding bonanza ). And, it’s been happening for a long time.

There's no such thing as too much employee recognition.

I recently spent the day with author Andrea Kates, who was challenged to connect the relevance of the working philosophy found in her best-selling book, Find Your Next , with real solutions that can help move businesses forward.

Sometimes the best way to keep your business growing is to analyze what would bring it to an end. Judge Smails (aka Ted Knight) once famously quipped in the iconic Caddyshack, "It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat

Identifying your businesss one true objective will provide a strong foundation for all strategic decision-making. A few years ago we worked with the new CEO of a consumer packaged goods (CPG) company

Lessons from my diet: Use these 5 steps to move your company past a plateau and on to the next 'set point.' I dropped about 20 pounds last spring–and in doing so, changed my weight "set point" to 175 pounds. That means that my body–metabolism, habits and choices–adjusted to a "new normal" that was easier to maintain than it had been to attain. Like the body's systems, businesses also develop along a series of set points and set point changes.

A few weeks ago a clinic in Mumbai claimed to have identified a dozen patients with a strain of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to all known treatments.

Water (H2O) has a simple composition, but its dizzyingly interconnected hydrogen-bonded networks make structural characterizations challenging. In particular, the organization of water surfaces—a region critical to processes in cell biology and atmospheric chemistry—has caused profound disagreements among scientists