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Get a better handle on what you're tracking and why. Here's a good place to start. Dear Jeff, I track conversion rates on our website.

This is the third in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton . Read the first installment, Are You A Power Poisoned Boss?

Goal setting is embedded in my DNA. Because something deep inside me gets so much satisfaction from completing them, I have to be careful that the goals I set are not colossal wastes of time and energy

Daydreaming about leaving your day job? See if you fit the profile of a successful entrepreneur--or if you're better off staying where you are. So, you have a great idea for a business

Great leaders reserve their advice for the people and situations in which it will do the most good.

Ryan Morris launched Salute the Brave, a clothing line designed to give back to the United States military members stationed overseas. After being cut from the University of Southern California baseball team, Ryan Morris was devastated. Baseball had been his life and without it, he knew that things were going to change.

In business, the consequences of failing to properly frame or assess an issue can be dire. Often such a misdiagnosis is the result of not having the right information. Though the necessary information is often available, businesspeople sometimes don't know how to find it or don't see it in front of them.

Contemporary life, with its flurry of e-mails, alerts, and appointments, can feel overwhelming, even for entrepreneurs. Train your brain to deal with the chaos. Entrepreneurs these days are bombarded with e-mails and information from the moment they grab their smartphones in the morning until they click their laptops closed before bed

Most leadership mistakes start with the leader's own sense of identity -- or lack thereof. How to keep your flaws from sabotaging your leadership

Step inside any company, no matter the size, stage of development, or level of success, and the culture is either driving the strategy or undermining it.

The community you build at work is just as important as anything else you do. A case in point. I debated sharing this story here because of how recently these events had taken place.

My clients are just like yours: They want to Skype, email and text. But here's why you still need face time. When the daily avalanche of emails and voice messages gets overwhelming, it’s so tempting to retreat to my office and start typing replies and returning phone calls

The power of cooperation and comedy to make useful products. As much as we may love the romantic idea of creativity as a solo, heroic activity, the truth more often is that innovation requires collaboration. We need other people to refine, develop, and test our ideas; that's one of the reasons we do so much work in teams

You're in an epic battle against distractions--and most of the time you're on the losing side.

You may regard your VC as a partner. Good! Just be aware that the VC may think of you as cannon fodder. To hear them tell it, venture capitalists aren't too different from entrepreneurs.