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In partnership with BNET, Columbia Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the best management ideas are presented in a quick-read format so they're easily absorbed and readily applied.
Using Downtime to Rebuild
How to use the downturn as an opportunity to fix what's broken in your organization. Read more
Management and Leadership
Why Failure Makes You a Better Manager
Failure provides balance that makes you a stronger leader and a more capable manager.
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How to Find Your Next CEO
Companies are notoriously bad at succession planning. Here's how to plan a regime change.
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The Hidden Costs of Layoffs
Take a look at the unexpected consequences of downsizing.
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How Power Motivates Action
Taking on a formal position of power—be it managerial, political, or cultural—gives people the illusion they have more control over their organization.
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Five Tactics for Landing a Board Seat
There are certain things you can do to increase your odds of being on the short list of board candidates.
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The Instinctive Offer
New research shows that negotiators who rely on their feelings often come out ahead.
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Strategy and Execution
Achieving Synergies in a Merger
How corporations can balance trade-offs between standardization and local adaptation.
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Strategic Intuition: The Key to Innovation
Combining ideas from military history, cognitive psychology and modern neuroscience, strategic intuition offers a four-step method for identifying and capturing opportunity.
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Why Some Firms Survive
Companies endure when they learn to keep an eye on how related industries are evolving.
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Organizational Development
How to Be Happy During the Crisis
Forget the misery index. Happiness in hard times isn’t so rare after all.
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Recession-Friendly Employee Perks
Three creative ways to keep rewards in your budget.
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Using Social Networking at Work
Here are four professionals who used social networks to change the game.
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How to Start a Mentorship Program
People who learn more on the job are far less likely to quit.
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Sales and Marketplace
How to Get Your Customers to Pay Up
Put a plan in place to increase your chances of getting bills paid in this tough economy.
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Marketing During a Meltdown
A downturn is one of the best times for marketing to shine.
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Building a Better Brand
Why putting critters on wine labels can be a good sales strategy.
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Too Many Products?
Large consumer-products firms may end up marketing too many product varieties.
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Segmenting Customer Behavior
Exposure to certain ideas and concepts can significantly affect behavior in unconscious ways.
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Entrepreneurship
Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
Even a major free-market economic crisis hasn't shaken business execs' faith in their favorite free-market philosopher.
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Too Small to Fail?
Innovative, upstart ventures have a crucial role to play in economic recovery. It may be time to give entrepreneurs a stimulus package of their own.
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Ten Ideas for Entrepreneurs Facing Personnel Issues
What every entrepreneur should know before hiring or firing.
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Competing With Open Source
How to stay in the game when your competition is a free product.
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Management Videos
Confessions of an Entrepreneur
BNET: How Numi Tea founder and CEO, Ahmed Rahim, turned a cup of tea into a multimillion-dollar business.
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