Leadership and the Art of Change

Life is a long process of getting used to things you started out to change. – Frank A. Clark As the story goes, it was on June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, that a smoky bonfire on a raised platfor

China wraps up session to install new leadership

The new leaders pledged to combat income inequality and corruption.

Dropbox Acquires Mailbox

The mail-management app will stay as its own standalone app. Dropbox, the popular file shortage startup, is buying the email app Mailbox. Under the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported, the 13 employees of Mailbox’s owner Orchestra Inc. will join D

In the Developing World, MOOCs Start to Get Real

Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world.As online education platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity burst onto the scene over the past year, backers have talked up their pot

Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview

An interview with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. For more, see the April issue of HBR. Download this podcast A written transcript will be available by March 22.

Go Toward Your Fear, Do Less, And Five More Surprising Leadership Lessons For Women

Lori Senecal, chairman and CEO of New York-based ad agency Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners (kbs), has learned a thing or two about climbing to the top. She worked her way up to president of the flagship New York office of storied ad agency McCann

“Soft SOPA” & How Copyright Disrupts Technology Innovation

Copyright. Innovation. Free speech. These firestarting issues and the relationship between creation, law and technology were the topics in a Sunday panel that just may have been the sleeper hit of SXSW. Speakers included Andrew Bridges, partner at Fe

Profitable Growth Strategies

For many years I’ve been looking for comprehensive, high quality, affordable training to help small business owners to grow their businesses profitably. At one stage, I tried to develop my own training system and spent a huge amount of time working o

Time For An Education System Makeover

Our educational system needs a makeover – not based on politics or standardized test scores but on what we know about how our brains work and how we learn. Continue reading →

Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t

You may recognize their brands, but these admired companies have few practices in common that would distinguish them from the rest of the rabble.