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Required Reading: Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For

If you’ve ever had a bad boss, you don’t need us to tell you what kinds of consequences they can have for business. Bad...

How Taking a Break Increases Your Workplace Productivity

A one hour lunch with your co-worker. Snagging an early afternoon coffee. An impromptu mid-week vacation day. Your boss...

The Best Leaders Serve Their People One at a Time

In many ways, servant leadership is all about helping people win—to accomplish their goals. Meeting with direct reports...

Learning to Learn: How to Leverage Knowledge in the Office, and How Self-Development Books Can Help

As 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age each day, it’s no surprise that millennials have replaced baby boomers as...

A Reading List for Servant Leaders

As part of my research for the recent Servant Leadership Online Training Summit, I reviewed scores of servant...

How to Accelerate Your Team's Productivity

4 keys to your team's success from productivity expert Laura Stack In July 2015, I was honored to be inducted into the...

25 Years of Iconic Berrett-Koehler Books

The past 25 years have seen major shifts in leadership, management, politics, and how we understand and work towards...

5 Leadership Quotes from Progressive Thinkers that Your Business Should Embrace

To be the best, you must learn from the best. This is especially relevant with leadership. To paraphrase Ray Kroc—the...

How to talk about yourself in your next job interview

"So, tell me about yourself." This question comes up all the time in job interviews. But when asked to talk about...