Leadership

Learn how to become an effective and inspiring leader. Discover strategies, tactics, tips and tools that will help you manage teams and achieve success in every aspect of your organization.

The 10 Common Characteristics Of Empire Builders

Are you an Empire Builder? How do you gauge yourself and your business? Do have the potential to turn your business into an empire? You...

What is Your Organization’s IQ (Innovation Quotient)?

Your ability to succeed in today’s economy is directly correlated with your ability to innovate. But most organizations change and innovate way too slowly, if...

Two Words from Jeff Bezos that Can Transform Your Business

Last week, Jeff Bezos, in his annual letter to Amazon shareholders, listed many of the company’s incredible successes. Like Amazon Prime signing up its 100 millionth...

Are You a Stealth Manager?

My first job, 25 years ago, was at a market research firm. About six months into the job, I had an idea for a new...

Entrepreneurs & Leadership: The Key is Not to Improve Weaknesses

When I was a kid I played ping pong quite a bit. We had a ping pong table in my basement and I would play...

Getting Others To Do What You Want

I recently reviewed an interesting book titled “Covert Persuasion.” In it, the authors defined “covert persuasion” as the art and science of convincing others to...

Promises-Based Management

An article in the April 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review discusses one of the biggest challenges in managing and growing a 21st century...

3 Surprising Facts You Didn’t Know About FedEx

It was not very long ago that the United States Postal Service was the only means by which to ship physical packages in the US....