Everyone knows the famous story about how in the fifth inning of the 1932 World Series Babe Ruth pointed to the bleachers showing all who could see that he was going to hit the next pitch over the fence for a home run.

While there is to this day some debate as to whether Ruth was […]

This is NOT what ‘managing up” means. It is not about making your boss look good, except incidentally . . . Managing up is handling the preparation or politics that can affect success . . . Sometimes it involves making your boss look good. Sometimes it involves rolling your boss if the boss is undermining […]

I found a recent article by Jack and Suzy Welch most interesting as it posed a question (or questions) that I would imagine many are afraid to ask.  Okay, maybe not afraid of the question so much as the possible answer itself.

In Four Reasons to Quit Your […]

Small businesses seeking financing from venture-capital firms need not worry about writing up a solid business plan, since it doesn’t sway funding decisions anyway, concludes a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business.

A recent post on LinkedIn about J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler’s lament regarding […]

I have enjoyed immensely the new series called Career Curveballs by some of the LinkedIn’s top influencers. So much so that I thought that I would share a personal story that had a major impact on my life for many reasons – including the fact that it happened later rather than earlier in my […]

“These executives were true pioneers. Surely some CIOs today are CEO material, Boushy says, but they may not be positioning themselves well. He had his sights set on being CEO early on in his career. “Things didn’t just happen to me. I managed them to happen to me,” he says.”

I recently came across a September 25th, […]