Management Practices

A real nice problem to have

June 6, 2017

What keeps Elon Musk up at night is not futuristic at all. It’s the overstuffed parking lot outside his office window.

3 rules make the company endure

March 6, 2017

A great company needs to be stellar but it also must hang in the heavens long enough to prove it’s more than a comet.

John Glenn’s deferred dream

February 10, 2017

Even true leaders sometimes have their dreams deferred.

‘Yes, but why can’t we?’

January 22, 2017

“I said, ‘Please tell me why we can’t do this. I’m all ears.’”

Help keep your staff fit

January 17, 2017

Physical fitness is essential for all employees, especially executives.

Leadership Tips, Vol. 117

January 4, 2017

CEO tenures drop … the power of “Yet” … When not to use humor.

CEO surprises staff with big payday

December 22, 2016

Yemeksepeti CEO Nevzat Aydin decided to distribute $27 million of the proceeds from his company’s sale to 114 of his employees.

Why won’t the CEO let me help?

December 1, 2016

Q: It drives me crazy how our CEO loves to pay for overpriced consultants to tell us what we already know (or at least what I could’ve told the CEO for free). I’m never asked for my opinion. What’s a diplomatic way for me to convey my concern?

Out of the mouths of window washers…

November 16, 2016

What does a window washer have to tell a high-powered exec? More than he was expecting.

Annual merit pay loses its luster

October 20, 2016

For decades, employers have lulled their workforce into expecting measly but predictable pay increases every year. But that’s changing.