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Creative Leadership at Its Best

Meet a CEO who knows how to have fun on the job while never losing focus on the details of day-to-day management. [more]

Strengthening Stakeholder Management Skills

Good leaders understand the importance of managing stakeholder trust but they don't really know how to do so effectively, these academics claim. [more]

Why Leading Companies Support Innovation Prizes

Market leaders realize that offering prizes for innovation can create wealth for the company, as this overview of how several companies score big wins explains. [more]

Time to Tighten Your FCPA Compliance?

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been a focus of enforcement efforts by the SEC and the U.S. [more]

Background Checks Ascend to the C-Suite

Companies are often hesitant to perform background checks on C-level employees and candidates -- at their own risk, according to Ken Springer, Corporate Resolutions president and founder and a former FBI agent. [more]

A New Balance of Power at Financial Companies

The silver lining in the mortgage mess is that it may speed up the separation of the CEO and Chairman roles at financial companies. [more]

The Leadership Skills That Drive M&A Success

Managers, not markets, are the key to success in mergers and acquisitions. [more]

Study: Business Process Management Initiatives Still Immature

The technology-enabled discipline of business process management (BPM) has achieved rapid adoption among large enterprises in the past few years, but success rates have been less impressive. [more]

Subprime Crisis -- A Failure of Leadership?

The recent catastrophically bad decision-making at giant Wall Street firms comes down to one thing, according to Dr E Ted Prince: their leaders' lack of business acumen. [more]

Companies Weakly Facing Employee Language Barriers

Approximately 15 percent of the US labor force is comprised of foreign-born workers, and employers are currently making little effort to overcome language limitations, according to a survey by The Conference Board. [more]

10 Communication Rules to Live By

This laundry list of communication principles to live by is worthy of printing out and placing on the lunch room refrigerator door. [more]

A Window into a Mercurial Leader's Soul

Apple's Steve Jobs is a stellar example of what leaders should and shouldn't do, and as this article points out, he does a lot of "shouldn'ts" and doesn't do a lot of "shoulds." It's tough to get a grip on this mercurial leader's management style, but one thing is clear: Jobs is as close to a one-man show as a corporate head can get. [more]

How Top-Tier Managers Embrace Paradox

This academic study from the Harvard Business School shows that CEOs of top American and European companies don't adopt an either/or approach to achieving goals. [more]

A Strategic Approach to Divestitures

It may never be as glamorous as the buy-side, but managing divestitures for maximum value is a vital skill for dynamic organizations. [more]

Law Firms Gearing Up for Subprime Windfall

The subprime litigation surge is far from over, according to attorneys at corporate law firms surveyed by Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. [more]

Procurement: It's a Whole New Chess Game

The rules have changed in the purchasing arena as consolidating supplier markets and soaring commodity prices have transferred negotiating advantages from buyers to sellers. [more]

Working for the Biggest and the Best

Making both the Fortune 1000 and Best Companies to Work For lists this year, these companies have a reputation for being the biggest and the best. [more]