Build Your Brand/Build Your Career

OK, you’re not Apple, IBM, or a bar of soap. But if you are ambitious and aspire to a leadership position, you have to spend some time defining and communicating your personal brand. Start by figuring out who you are and how you come across to others.

Building a Better Business Through Ruthless Focus

What does it take to successfully lead a business in today’s always changing, increasingly competitive marketplace? Ruthless focus: on strategy, people, culture, and what works, say the authors of a new book.

Business and Financial Acumen Empowers Women at Every Level of an Organization

Should you care about your company’s financial statement if you’re not in sales, finance, or another “money-related” role in the organization?

Keys to Understanding Today's New Job Market

Interview with R. William Holland, Ph.D., author of Cracking the New Job Market.

How to Improve your Tomorrow, Today

Strategies for working toward future career success, based on the teachings of Peter Drucker .

Creating an Unbeatable Résumé

Written by a recruiter who has actually placed more than 8,500 individuals in jobs.

Decoding the Job Interview BY CAROL KINSEY GOMAN

As the candidate in a job interview, you’re aware that you are being assessed for competence, confidence, and candor. But what about the interviewer?

Do Worry, Be Happy

Most of the events in our lives provoke a range of emotions. At a wedding, we might weep while smiling, and at a funeral, we may laugh through our tears. Yet at work, we're usually expected to remain relentlessly upbeat, even if our true feelings are...

Do You Have What It Takes to Move Ahead?

How to Handle Working for a Bully

I met Brenda when I was brought in to help with an upcoming change initiative at a Fortune 500 company. She managed a 2,000-person department and I was impressed by her intelligence, creativity, political savvy, and dedication to her job. Brenda had all the qualities of a senior executive—which was