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An overinflated ego is like any bubble. Sooner or later it’s bound to burst and come crashing back down to Earth.

It wasn’t too long ago, Sony was all that – and that much more. But it seems the now-stuck company missed out on this fatherly advice.

A perfect storm of factors has led to cultural conformity based on fictitious fads, popular notions and misinformation.

Even the desire to work more effectively can become a distraction, as anyone who’s spent an afternoon at work looking at online productivity systems can attest. Here is advice.

What drives highly accomplished executives at companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft to give up sweet gigs to run the corporate equivalent of a popsicle stand?

A productive worker is a happy worker, even when he’s allowed now and then not to work ... at all.

The key to achieving perfect leadership balance and equilibrium may literally be at your fingertips.      

While company culture is not a one-size-fits-all, here are a few practices that could help develop any existing culture into an award-winner.

Leading your organization to big innovation doesn’t need to mean expensive budgets, posh consultancies, or uncomfortable acquisitions. Here is what it takes.

Motorcycle-racing legend Erik Buell on selling his sport-bike company to Harley Davidson – and then getting another chance to run it as an independent company.

Nothing is better than a face-to-face conversation. Yes, they take more time than pressing send, but the connection you create can’t be replicated by any online exchange.

DuPont Pioneer’s Steve Reno says the company is using a new, high-tech, 200,000-square-foot greenhouse to develop seeds for farmers.

Gary Cohen, the CEO of golf startup EZLinks, says he’s focused on making tee-time bookings more efficient for golfers.

Steve Jobs definitely pushed the envelope, and that included skirting ethical, legal, and societal boundaries.

A ho-hum stock market so far this year may be just what Berkshire Hathaway shareholders needed.

Successful careers have one thing in common: a healthy dose of randomness and luck.  

America’s current political and economic climate is similar to when Margaret Thatcher became British Prime Minister – except she actually turned things around instead of making things worse.

Despite the climate of the economic recovery, consulting firm McKinsey & Company found that two out of every five Americans (or 40%) are living paycheck to paycheck.

The ridiculous argument against a pipeline that’s really a piece of work.

In an era where there is little bipartisan agreement, the need to pass a new terrorism insurance legislation finds remarkable consensus on both sides of the aisle.