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Start training your managers to be predictively agile today, and you'll see the benefit in the form of a substantial competitive advantage 18 months from now.

Managing people is the most difficult thing any professional person ever does. It's incomparably difficult.

To strengthen our barely-breathing economic recovery, a truly brave move would be to appoint not a marquee "brand name" business leader but to turn to successful founder-owners from the SME community.

Following is an excerpt from a recent conversation I had with Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies and author of the recently published Employees First, Customers Second.

By its definition, luck can't be controlled. In business building, however, and among many of the great entrepreneurs, luck has a slightly different definition. You often hear entrepreneurs talking about how they "created luck."

Corporate America has a bad habit. It tolerates, perpetuates and systemically ignores bad behavior by keeping problem employees around far longer than they should.

Thinking requires confidence, but when a mistake can result in a public dressing down, your staff will lack that confidence, and won't risk independent action. They'll stick to the safer, non-thinking way.

Warren Bennis is a master storyteller. If you haven't had the good fortune to meet him in person, his new book will make you feel as if you've known him his whole life.

How often is there a bully in the midst? According to the 2007 Workplace Bullying Institute's national survey, 37 percent of adult Americans have reported being bullied at work.

The recession has given a fresh burst to the fraudulent management consultancy industry, as corporations beg to be told where to apply the leeches.

How would you manage 250 operating companies spread over three industries that do business in more than 60 countries? That's a question Johnson & Joh...

Are all creative people unstable? No. But they do tend to be iconoclasts, and rogue behavior is not smiled upon in most organizations, no matter how progressive they fancy themselves.

When I was in college, one of my odd jobs was to work at the dining hall. One of the strangest things about my experience was the name tag. Customers needed to know that you were not just a white-aproned server drone, but a real person.

Much like a hidden oil spill, insidious destruction goes on daily in the work lives of many professionals. The contamination accumulates silently, behind the scenes, over time.

There are at least three variations of what we might call "multiarchies" (multiple hierarchies) in the workplace, and each requires different strategies.

This week, I am sharing some common questions and answers about doing both. Today, let's talk about companies that benefit from doing both--and those...

Despite receiving a world-class education, I've noticed a clear void in my first two years of graduate school: learning to ask strong and articulate questions.

We were coaching a woman (we'll call her Donna) who is an associate partner in a law firm. Donna has been with the firm for 10 years and was promoted...

Companies are always looking for people who have the potential to advance within the organization. One of the keys to progressing is being an effectiv...