I’ve been talking to a lot of CEOs in the last couple weeks. They’re asking me: What three or four points must I turn my attention to right away? Here’s what I’ve been telling them...

An executive team certainly isn’t a bunch of apples, and an executive who causes problems on a team isn’t necessarily “bad.” But the analogy holds: one difficult member of a CEO’s team will spoil the entire team, if not the company it leads. Most CEOs understand this in theory, which provokes...

No good leader ever won over their people's hearts and minds (but especially their hearts) by exerting power and control over them. Top-down bosses that squash people kill intrinsic motivation. The more good employees turn into order-takers, the less they'll self-start. In the post-industrial age...

Jeff Bezos is one of the world's richest people. So, it's perhaps no surprise that headlines pop up when he sells billions worth of Amazon stock. But the reason behind the sale might prove most important to Bezos -- and to those who do business with him. Since January 31...

When a company is trying to turn a vision into a product that customers will buy, it needs someone who can design and build that product and someone else who works well with people. This is not to say that the 'product' person is terrible with people -- for example...

Contrary to popular belief, the cities with the youngest founders aren't startup capitals like Silicon Valley and New York City. That honor goes to New Orleans, Salt Lake City, and Philadelphia, the top three U.S. cities respectively with the youngest founders, according to...

The New Year, while always a time to look forward and plan ahead, provides a chance to look back and reflect. It's a time to think about your personal and leadership growth and thank the people who have supported you on your journey. Even if that support was as simple as a piece of advice...

We have the key to the city--or 50 cities, to be exact. For the 2020 Surge Cities index, Inc. and innovation policy company Startup Genome analyzed troves of data on seven essential indicators--such as...

Three years in, a friend's startup is still barely making a profit. So he asked me for advice. "Since you're in a commodity business, where margins are naturally tight," I said, "the only way to win is...

Seems many of your fellow finance departments are having “trust issues”: More than half (55%) of companies aren’t completely confident they can identify financial errors before they report their results. Even worse...

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I first met Mark Zuckerberg in March 2006. At the time, I was the lead tech writer at Newsweek and was working on a story about what we were calling Web 2.0—the notion that the next stage of the internet would be a joyful, participatory creation of individuals. I'd heard about a social networking startup that was...

Being a parent is hard. Being a parent and managing a large company must be olympian. Between the demands of work, and the myriad of other distracting demanding attention...

He now makes $66 million a year as the CEO of Disney, but Bob Iger’s rise to the top wasn’t exactly easy. The Long Island native had to work odd jobs starting at the age of 13 to help support himself. As a teenager...

Megan O’Connor, the cofounder and CEO of education startup Clark, got her first taste of professional coaching when she joined the Human Ventures startup studio. “Sometimes...

Under Armour announced on Tuesday that it was bringing on a new CEO and it’s no surprise that the sportswear maker didn’t pick a finance chief. The percentage of...

Say you’re an executive aspiring to join the C-Suite. Your access to the firm’s CEO may be limited. But understanding when and how to communicate issues and opportunities upward can...