How Smart People Collaborate for Success

by Kevin Daum

Solo performers can shine, but working together can yield greater results. Here are seven tips for improving collaboration.

Most experts agree that collaboration in business consistently provides greater accomplishment. When it works, the combined brainpower of intelligent people can solve complex problems and achieve amazing results. Continue reading

3 Signs You’re Meant to Be a Leader

written by Les McKeown

Not everyone is cut out to be a leader. But if you have these three traits, you might be a natural born leader.

Reading leadership literature (including this column), you’d sometimes think that it was written in the stars that everyone has the potential to be an effective leader.

I don’t believe that to be true. In fact, I see way fewer truly effective leaders than I see people stuck in positions of leadership who are woefully incompetent at worst and seriously misguided about their own abilities at best. Continue reading