You cannot have an execution culture without robust dialogue - one that brings reality to the surface through openness, candor, and informal...

Darren Ross is the COO of Magic Castle Hotel in Hollywood . Built in 1957, Magic Castle isn't exactly the modern, amenity-filled experi...

Margaret Atwood , the prolific author of eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fi...

Peter Drucker , in my view the father of modern management  thinking, was also a master of the art of the graceful no. When Mihaly Csikszent...

Growing up in Athens, I was brought up on the classics and the Greek myths. They were taught to me not as ancient history, as my children le...

Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a gardener. Do any of the actions below seem like a good idea? Planting a seed and then digging it b...

Risk, creativity and defining your own path is made possible only through a series of failures, some big, some small. Hide none of them. ...

Schistosoma mansani, commonly known as the blood fluke Creating an economically viable entity where lack of original thought is handsom...

When it comes time to break a horse, the Havasupai have a simpler, far more sensible approach than western cowboys. They lead the horse out...

[Effective leaders have "high ethical and moral standards” and “communicat[e] clear expectations”...] Taken together, these attri...

Real emotional intelligence is more than just being sensitive or “nice,” more than understanding how to read the mood of a conference room ...

In this world of intense scrutiny, where everyone is looking at what you do...one reaction is to create management systems, more process, m...

[O]ne of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is an individual’s ability to find meaning in negative events and t...

John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, VES Awards. 2/28/2010 Here are some of the principles we’ve developed over the years to enable and protect...

Invention… is an active process that results from the decisions we make; to change the world, we must bring new things into being. But ho...

Another trick is to encourage people to play. “Some of the best ideas come out of joking around, which only comes when you (or the boss) ...

Jazz thrives on improvisation; there's no clear road map that tells people how to act in order to coordinate with one another. The on...

The second rule of improvisation is not only to say yes, but YES, AND. You are supposed to agree and then add something of your own. If I...

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its potential to be isolating, Jobs was a strong beli...

One lawyer we know attributes his success directly to his ability to invent solutions advantageous to both his client and the other side....