Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Perfect things rarely become that way all at once. From making a great movie to planning a memorable vacation to running a successful business, it takes a series of intelligent decisions, big and ...

Coming up with a great business idea often isn't the biggest challenge entrepreneurs face in being successful. If you've created a product or service the public wants, you'll still need to develop and ...

Few businesses can grow or even survive without setting goals or making plans. That's why strategic management matters. Strategic planning looks at the organization's goals and plans and figures out ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

People come together and join forces for a reason. To achieve the purpose effectively and efficiently, they create an organization. The sum total of those individuals' shared beliefs, norms, attitudes ...

As we continue to look at ways of being effective within our productivity, it is important to understand that the workforce has to do much more than just “work harder” and increase throughput. The ...

“Seventy percent of corporate transformation efforts are doomed to fail.” International change leader and Harvard Business School professor Dr. John Kotter made this dire assertion more than 25 years ...

As with any initiative, to ensure long-term success with AI requires strong communications and change management before, during and after launch. To make sure investments in artificial intelligence ...

Note: This article is the cover story in the Feb/March issue of Security Technology Executive magazine. As of the preparation of this article, numerous ongoing crises have had a global impact. There ...