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For years, mentoring has been how many companies and professional associations have hoped to close the leadership gender gap, in which women barely achieve...
I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Those that get picked for a post will receive a free copy of...
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
One of the hardest things for emerging leaders to learn is how to let go. Entrepreneurs are notorious for falling into the do it...
So, the promotion finally came through. You’ve joined the management ranks. You’re excited, apprehensive, and itching to get started, all at the same time....
Who needs job fairs when you have children’s birthday parties? I was just trying to wipe icing off of my 2-year-old’s face and there...
Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, a pioneer in the study of the business brain, will help decode C-level thinking and map out ways to increase your productivity...
Some of the practices used by companies to recruit new workers are rude and unprofessional, Michael Spiro writes. Job seekers hate it when employers...
Even when the job market is abysmal, we still like to think that all our hard work is getting us somewhere. We want to...
I just got off the phone with a colleague. The purpose of her call: to be reassured that it would be OK to blow...
This post was written by SmartBrief’s Tom Anderson. Deepak Ahuja, CFO of Tesla Motors, helped the electric-car company raise $226.1 million with a June...
Promotions are about more than the Peter Principle — the concept that one can be promoted beyond one’s competence. Those who promote others have...
2013 is right around the corner, so it’s time to start evaluating our success for 2012 and setting goals for next year — professionally...
The moment after you land the corner office, you need to be thinking about who will replace you. Your legacy lies in the hands...
Do you freeze up every time you have to communicate your ideas to people in positions of power? Do you clam up at meetings...
A friend suggested that some people don’t want to lead. He insisted some just weren’t cut out for leadership and others might “never” or...
From Henry Ford to Steve Jobs, prominent business leaders have touted the virtues of failure as a pathway to ultimate success. Why? Failure provides...
Recently, social psychologists discovered a problem most of us have in preparing for the future: we think of our future selves as strangers —...
This post is excerpted from “The Glass Closet” (HarperBusiness, June 2014) by John Browne. Visit The Glass Closet website and follow @glassclosetorg on Twitter....
My first leadership post was the most unusual and most unexpected management position that I ever held. When I was a high school senior,...
“Leadership is always dependent on the context, but the context is established by the relationships we value.” ~ Margaret Wheatley Many people think that they...
Today I’m pleased to introduce a regular SmartBlog feature called If You Can Get to Just 1. Each month we will select from scores...
After a long summer with nothing to watch but reruns and reality shows, new episodes of everyone’s favorite shows are returning, including one of...
Today’s guest post is by Aubrey Daniels, author of “Bringing out the Best in People,” and “OOPS! 13 Management Practices That Waste Time &...
The other day I was talking with a highly accomplished HR consultant, whose business took a real beating during the market downturn. Before long,...
A few months ago, I read a line in Kay Redfield Jamison’s new book, Nothing Was the Same, that has haunted me ever since:...
This guest post is by Rupert Merson, an adjunct associate professor of strategic and international management and entrepreneurship at London Business School. His next...
Christine M. Riordan The initial public offering for Facebook brought the topic of business valuation to the forefront. Facebook’s stock price immediately dropped when...
Leaders who are on the fast track know what it’s like to have to “scale” when they’re promoted. They may go from managing an...
In the old days, companies did branding and people did leading. Not so today. Nowadays, if you want to get into or stay in...
Most leaders I know are overwhelmed with the sheer volume of work that’s on their plates. Some of it’s important, but much of it...
Leadership advice runs rampant on the Internet, which is fine because most of it comes from a place of wisdom and reflection. If you’re...
Under a veneer of progress, what we call the "New Soft War on Women" is gaining strength, based on stubborn stereotypes about what women can’t do.
Diane is six months into her assignment as a midlevel manager in a large technology company. She was promoted to this position because of...
China Gorman, CEO of Great Place to Work China Gorman, chief executive officer of Great Place to Work, has more than 30 years of...
Madeline is sitting in her boss’s office, patiently waiting for his full attention so she can preview a client presentation she has to deliver...
If you Google “gift ideas for your boss,” you will find pages of results, mostly from companies that sell gifts. However, if you search...
I served on a panel on personal branding last night for the D.C. Chapter of the American Marketing Association. Sandwiched between image consultant Marva...
As usual, they crammed quite a lot of action into “The Office” this week: Michael is overwhelmed by the extra work brought on by...
Last night on “The Office,” the folks at Dunder Mifflin‘s Scranton branch had their annual Christmas party. Is anyone surprised that it was a...
OK, maybe a president or CEO could be considered a king, but that’s not where I’m going with this. On last night’s episode of...
If you’re in HR, you know this better than anyone else: Companies that are laying people off — or that are in serious trouble...