When former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke at a conference
hosted by the Center for Creative Leadership last year, he named six
essential qualities of great...
Someone once advised Marcy Blochowiak, head of the Georgia-based financial services marketing firm World Financial Group, that she would have to lead herself before she...
Issue: Employers often set new hires' wages, in part, based on salaries at previous jobs. Risk: A new court ruling says you could run afoul of the Equal Pay Act ...
Question: First of all, let me thank all of those who have given me advice in the past. My
frustrations have finally been solved. All this time, I thought no one
cared...
In 1953, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis played London’s Palladium, the
first appearance in England for what back then was America’s top
entertainment act. The...
Leaders run a high risk of burnout as they move from one real-world challenge to the next. Stay strong by realizing that you need to continually learn and grow in three...
When John H. Slade died, one obituary made a telling error in saying that he
had worked at Bear Stearns for “seven centuries.” Actually, it was only
seven...
For a while now, General Electric’s top dogs have been studying
companies they admire, like Dell and Toyota, seeing how they do things
and trying to figure out...
Question: "I need some good
employee-appreciation ideas. My company has about 500 employees who
work in different departments, and we don't even recognize...
The romance and excitement of the Valentine's Day holiday is all well and good...at home. The last thing employers want to do is play matchmaker for their employees....
Notre Dame University football coach Charlie Weis met in September with a very sick 10-year-old named Montana Mazurkiewicz. Weis asked the boy if he could do anything...
K’ang-hsi, who ruled China from 1661 to 1722, was a formidable leader
who held direct authority over courts, infrastructure, military defense
and nearly...
Even if you lack formal authority, you can still practice what business
professor and researcher Robert E. Kelly calls “small-L leadership” by
bringing...
In his latest book, Why Decisions Fail,
scholar Paul C. Nutt analyzes 15 disastrous courses of action, from
Ford’s defense of the flammable Pinto to...
