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A highly skilled worker repairs the H-1B visa lottery machine.
February 6, 2017

Companies Want to Hire the Best Employees. Can Changes to the H-1B Visa Program Help?

The current lottery is not optimal for top foreign applicants or the companies that want to hire them.

A business leader communicates complex ideas to a circle of employees.
January 6, 2017

Take 5: Lead Better Teams, Engage More Customers, and Find Your Next Market

Kellogg professors offer tips to grow your career and your organization.

Self-reflection improves leadership over time
December 2, 2016

How Self-Reflection Can Make You a Better Leader

Setting aside 15 minutes a day can help you prioritize, prepare, and build a stronger team

Successful scientists hope their next paper will be a hit.
November 2, 2016

Why a Scientist’s Big Break May Be Just Around the Corner

Researchers, have hope: your most successful paper can occur at any point in your career.

An employee is motivated by a performance incentive.
November 2, 2016

Do Performance Incentives Make Us Greedy?

How we are rewarded shifts our values in surprising ways.

A high performing superstar employee stands out and receives the spotlight for his hard work.
October 4, 2016

How to Nurture Your Superstar Employees

Focus on these three traits to help your top performers flourish—and stick around.

An employee leads by jumping from the bleachers and joining the action.
September 7, 2016

Don’t Wait to Be Asked: Lead

A roadmap for increasing your influence at work.

A boss decides which leadership style to use.
September 6, 2016

How to Be a Good Boss: Start by Understanding Why You Want to Lead

Research explores the pros and cons of two distinct leadership styles.

Political capital is not constrained by an org chart.
August 2, 2016

4 Tips to Gain Influence in Your Organization

You have more power than you think—here’s how to harness it.

Leadership of a high-impact team requires strategy
July 1, 2016

5 Strategies for Leading a High-Impact Team

Why “teams are not cocktail parties,” and other words of wisdom.

June 14, 2016

An Illustrated Guide to the Value of an MBA

A professor urges graduates to both celebrate their accomplishments and remember their good fortune.

May 10, 2016

Video: Are You Making the Wrong First Impression?

When building trust, it is not enough to demonstrate competence.

A leader uses social-emotional intelligence to stay calm in the midst of conflict
April 4, 2016

Why Leaders Should Nurture Their Social–Emotional Intelligence

These four skills can diffuse conflict, particularly within family businesses.

Persistence, like an all-nighter at work, is the key to creative success
March 7, 2016

Think You’re Out of Creative Ideas? Think Again.

We downplay the importance of persistence in creative success.

An executive tries to be an authentic leader.
March 7, 2016

5 Tips to Become an Authentic Leader

Sincerity can go a long way when stepping into a new role.

Higher education enrollement
February 1, 2016

There Is a Downside to Increased Enrollment in Higher Ed

How opening the floodgates can hurt the classroom experience.

Building an analytics team will help grow your business.
December 7, 2015

Tips for Building an Analytics Team

How to hire and keep data analytics superstars.

illustration of a woman wearing a backpack leaving office cubicle with map unfolded.
November 3, 2015

A DIY Guide to Career Growth

Eight ways to develop your potential—instead of waiting for your manager to take the lead.

A Chief Growth Officer must consider many factors to implement growth strategies.
November 2, 2015

How to Succeed as a Chief Growth Officer

Five ways leaders can challenge the status quo to encourage growth.

Workplace entitlement demonstrated by an opera diva.
November 2, 2015

Does Creativity Breed Entitlement?

Companies that put creative employees on a pedestal encourage bad behavior.

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