Leadership
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: Facebook comments lead to NLRB lawsuit 3 tips for hiring a top-notch team...
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Leadership
Live from AWEA’s fall symposium: Colin Powell’s lessons on leadership
This post was written by SmartBrief’s Bryan McBournie. Follow Bryan, editor of the free daily newsletter Wind Energy SmartBrief, on Twitter @SB_Energy. Colin Powell,...
Leadership
How Safeway put its workers on camera to improve engagement
This guest post is by Miri Zena McDonald, a strategic communications consultant. Miri tweets at @miri_orgchange. She attended the Marcus Evans 6th Annual Employee...
Leadership
Make it a real favor
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 150,000 business leadership. We run the poll question...
Leadership
Does a company’s CSR strategy influence investment decisions by outsiders?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sustainability — tracks feedback from more than 17,000 CSR leaders. We run the poll...
Leadership
What does CSR mean at your company?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sustainability — tracks feedback from more than 17,000 CSR leaders. We run the poll...
Leadership
Who — or what — should be in charge of a CSR strategy?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sustainability — tracks feedback from more than 17,000 CSR leaders. We run the poll...
Leadership
Chris Brogan, on the reason every business needs a website
At the Milken Institute Global Conference, Human Business Works President Chris Brogan spoke with SmartBrief editor Mary Ellen Slayter about the importance of an...
Leadership
How predictable is your boss’ leadership style?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 150,000 business leaders. We run the poll...
Leadership
SmartPulse: 70% of small-business leaders say first half of 2011 was same or better than 2010
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Small Business — tracks feedback from small-business owners. We run the poll question each...
Leadership
Don’t discount a strategy before giving it a try
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Small Business — tracks feedback from small-business owners. We run the poll question each...
Leadership
SmartBrief on Small Business readers react to U.S. credit rating downgrade
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Small Business — tracks feedback from small-business owners. We run the poll question each...
Leadership
This week’s most clicked
Bartz gets the boot from Yahoo!; what the CEO of Symantec learned from Shakespeare; and why being excellent is better than being perfect. Read...
Leadership
Your method of communication matters to its recipient
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Small Business — tracks feedback from small-business owners. We run the poll question each...
Leadership
This week’s most clicked
How a carload of teen girls taught Guy Kawasaki a lesson in humility; the final word on Steve Jobs; and seven words you should...
Leadership
4 key questions to ask while planning for 2012
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sales — tracks feedback from sales managers and executives. We run the poll question...
Leadership
Have you resolved to lead differently in 2012?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll...
Leadership
Live from #NEC12: Karl Rove and Robert Gibbs debate the U.S. energy crisis
The U.S. has an energy crisis on its hands, and there’s no simple way to solve it. That’s what former staffers from the Bush...
Leadership
How well do your bosses stay in touch with your day-to-day reality?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll...
Leadership
What are analytics? And whose job is it, anyway?
I’ve been fortunate to work with several Fortune 500 companies, as well as some innovative manufacturers and retailers. One of the hottest and most...
Small Business
BizBash’s David Adler on being the leading resource for events and meetings
SmartBrief is talking directly with small and medium-sized businesses to discover their journeys, challenges and lessons. Today’s post is a Q-and-A with David Adler,...
Leadership
SAIT Polytechnic’s Irene Lewis on the leader’s role in corporate communications
Miri Zena McDonald attended the 2012 International Association of Business Communicators World Conference in Chicago and is providing coverage for SmartBrief’s SmartBlog on Leadership....
Leadership
#BlogHer12 gets a visit from Obama
Social media is nothing new to President Barack Obama. He is, after all, the first president to cling to his BlackBerry and the first...
Strategy
Crowdsourcing begins at home
It’s said that no one is a prophet in his or her own country. As it turns out, with the exception of such companies...
Leadership
How frequently do you seek out coaches and mentors to help team members improve?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 170,000 business leaders. We run the poll...
Strategy
What’s so great about a “green” building?
JW Roberts is the CEO and founder of General Datatech, a Cisco value-added reseller that provides core routing and switching, unified communications, security, wireless,...
Leadership
Interactive: Examining North Carolina’s Political Leanings
North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes are key for each of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election. It is one of the swing states...
Strategy
How a wider perspective makes you a better leader
As leaders become more prominent in their organizations, they tend to have much to do and a few key people to do it with....
Leadership
Are the leaders in your organization talkers or doers?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 170,000 business leaders. We run the poll...
Strategy
Explore the benefits of customer and supplier partnerships
Many companies have discovered the virtue of partnering. When they don’t have all the skills or resources needed to truly delight customers, it makes...
Leadership
Q-and-A: Dr. Vivian Fonseca on what’s in store for physicians next year
Dr. Vivian Fonseca has served as editor of the journal Diabetes Care and is the 2012 president, Medicine & Science, of the American Diabetes...
Strategy
Swimming with the sharks: Entrepreneurial lessons from reality TV
I must confess to a guilty pleasure — I love the ABC show “Shark Tank,” which gives budding entrepreneurs a chance to realize their...
Leadership
Map highlights 50 largest malls for holiday shopping
Aerial view of the Mall of America. Click on image to launch interactive map. Just in time for the holidays, the story map Fifty...
Strategy
A recipe for business success in today’s innovation age
Business success can be attributed to countless factors — a marketable product, great leadership, an efficient business structure, etc. It’s an intimidating list, making...
Leadership
10 ways to fail as a CEO
The year 2013 has begun, and with it a new year of scrutinizing CEO performance. It’s worth taking one last look at 2012’s poor...
Strategy
Getting to meetings that matter: A Q-and-A with “Will There Be Donuts?” author David Pearl
David Pearl is the author of “Will there be Donuts? Better Business One Meeting at a Time” (published in the U.S. by HarperCollins, October...
Leadership
Esri will offer data to Intellimed for hospital planning and forecasting
Esri and health care data analytics company Intellimed International announced a partnership last month in which Esri will provide Intellimed with data for hospital...
Strategy
Making room for risk in high-performing companies
To drive innovation, you sometimes have to “break” to achieve your breakthrough. Tesla Motors is a perfect example of a company that disrupted its...
Leadership
Baker Hughes’ Gary Cresswell on aligning personal genius and company goals
Gap International’s Leveraging Genius Conference began Feb. 25 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Nearly 200 global executives and their teams from multiple industries and cultures came...
Strategy
5 ways to get unstuck
Adrian had been looking for a solution to an issue at work in her head for months (and months). She was, in her words,...
Leadership
Geotrigger set to help developers hit the mark
Mobile phone battery life is a precious commodity. Consumers crave more and more cool applications for their phones, but those apps can drain the...
Leadership
Live from #2013GC: The missions of Salesforce.com, Disney, Foot Locker and Whole Foods
What do Salesforce.com, Foot Locker, Disney, Whole Foods and Knowledge Universe U.S. have in common? A commitment to success through corporate philosophies that emphasize...