The most compelling figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and the unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs who were the first in the music business to read the generational writing on the wall...

Smart Videoconferencing is the first book to show people how to participate effectively in videoconferences, rather than just how to set them up. The authors show that just like traditional meetings, mastering a few tricks and simple...

A small business is not just a scaled-down version of a big one. In fact, some of the strategies that work well for larger companies may actually be completely irrelevant for smaller firms. Small Business for Big Thinkers offers...

Your Mind Can't Be Two Places at Once Too many of us have become addicted to the popular, enticing, dangerously misleading drug of multitasking. Devora Zack was once hooked herself. But she beat it and became more efficient, and...

Jeff Madrick, a former columnist for The New York Times, is an economics columnist for Harper's, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and editor of Challenge Magazine. He is visiting professor of humanities at The...

When breakdowns occur in organizational life, the tendency is to blame them on the personalities, motivations and abilities of the individuals involved or on the specific characteristics of one’s organization. Barry Oshry demonstrates...

You have a brilliant idea and are ready to invest all your time and hard-earned cash. But what if you aren’t really sure how to market or sell that stunning service or perfect product? What if you are a bit of an introvert and aren’t...

No more 16-hour days! Running your own business—the American dream—can be daunting: long days, none of the freedom you envisioned, no time for family and friends and the unrelenting pressure to keep up the pace. Worse, all this hard...

More than ever, women are achieving outstanding levels of professional success. Whether CEOs, board members, entrepreneurs, or high performers, women are a game-changing force in the global economy. But women want and need to be paid...