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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. Read More
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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. Read More

The Hidden Costs of Layoffs

Take a look at the unexpected consequences of downsizing. Read More

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. Read More
Insight

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. Read More

The Instinctive Offer

New research shows that negotiators who rely on their feelings often come out ahead. Read More
Strategy and Execution
Merger

Achieving Synergies in a Merger

How corporations can balance trade-offs between standardization and local adaptation. Read More

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. Read More

Why Some Firms Survive

Companies endure when they learn to keep an eye on how related industries are evolving. Read More
Organizational Development
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How to Be Happy During the Crisis

Forget the misery index. Happiness in hard times isn’t so rare after all. Read More

Recession-Friendly Employee Perks

Three creative ways to keep rewards in your budget. Read More

Using Social Networking at Work

Here are four professionals who used social networks to change the game. Read More

How to Start a Mentorship Program

People who learn more on the job are far less likely to quit. Read More
Sales and Marketplace
Bills

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. Read More

Marketing During a Meltdown

A downturn is one of the best times for marketing to shine. Read More

Building a Better Brand

Why putting critters on wine labels can be a good sales strategy. Read More

Too Many Products?

Large consumer-products firms may end up marketing too many product varieties. Read More

Segmenting Customer Behavior

Exposure to certain ideas and concepts can significantly affect behavior in unconscious ways. Read More
Entrepreneurship
Ayn Rand

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. Read More

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. Read More
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Ten Ideas for Entrepreneurs Facing Personnel Issues

What every entrepreneur should know before hiring or firing. Read More

Competing With Open Source

How to stay in the game when your competition is a free product. Read More
Management Videos
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Video  Confessions of an Entrepreneur

BNET: How Numi Tea founder and CEO, Ahmed Rahim, turned a cup of tea into a multimillion-dollar business. View Video
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