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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.  

As political consultants look for what caused the shellacking Democrats took at the polls last week, let’s not forget consumers tend vote with their wallets, so we have to consider the impact of ObamaCare.

The republican wave wasn’t about politics but about incompetent leadership, gross mismanagement and economic decline.

Republicans have every reason to feel cocky today. My advice? Get over it tomorrow.

Never mind whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie bungled his Ebola response by quarantining, and then un-quarantining a nurse just back from West Africa, focus on why he did it. And while you’re at it, focus on why five other governors urged similar quarantines in their own states.