Organizations around the world are failing on one key metric of success: leadership development. According to research from the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), 66% of companies invest in programs that aim to identify high-potential employees and help them advance, but only 24% of senior executives at those firms consider the programs to be a success. A mere 13% have confidence [...]

Battling stress is an ongoing journey that will probably never end for me—and very likely for a lot of people—but I’m always ecstatic when I can find something that helps me manage those pangs of anxiety.Last week’s habit challenge did just that.This simple method for managing stress came to us from researchers at the University of Minnesota, who found that noting positive [...]

Asolid business saying: People leave managers, not companies. A Gallup poll backs that up: U.S. firms lose $400 billion annually in productivity due to employee disengagement. So notes Victor Lipman, author of "The Type B Manager: Leading Successfully in a Type A World" and founder of Howling Wolf Management Training. Since management at its core is the business of accomplishing work through others, "you [...]