An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time.