The basic law of supply and demand that you learned in college is playing out at your small business: In a good economy, in which jobs are plentiful, competition for employees intensifies and ...

Managers in all disciplines face the yearly challenge of developing a budget and defending it to the CEO, chief financial officer (CFO) or board. Then, once getting approval, managers must make sure ...

Give it one week, and certainly no more than two. It shouldn't take any longer than this for a small-business owner to learn that managing employees will be his No. 1 challenge. Employees might call ...

For an organization to succeed, effective internal communication is crucial, but circulating messages through internal channels alone doesn’t always do the trick. So, smart corporate communications ...

What would it be like to be initiated fully by your own internal authority? Most of us don’t even think about whether or not we are listening to an internal or an external authority. But we are—one or ...