Management

Watson, the IBM Supercomputer, Might Replace the Loudmouth in Your Meetings

Watson was able to make further suggestions on companies to eliminate from the group of potential targets, essentially generating a shortlist.

Management

How to Run a Team of People Who Never See Each Other

The best tips for running a distributed team while maintaining trust, a cohesive culture, and collaboration.

Management

Scheduling Business Calls Days in Advance Should Be Banned

Obsessing over scheduling serves to postpone calls that should only take minutes for days, wasting both people’s time.

Management

This Is Bill Gates’ Favorite Business Book of All Time

This book has been out of print, is nearly half a century old, and is entirely different from the how-to-manage guides that top many other lists.

Management

How to Avoid Having to Fire Your Best Employees

Even in the smallest of businesses, new managers need to be well managed themselves.

Management

The Most Valuable Keywords to Have on a Tech Resume

At every education level, jobs requiring STEM skills in the US take far more time and money to fill than just about anything else.

Management

What Managers Do When Technology Does Their Work

Roles change when coordination and communication functions are automated.

Management

Threatening to Fire Workers Doesn’t Make Them More Productive

It's harder to do your job when all you can think of is having to find another one.

Management

Technologies Designed to Save Time Are Helping Us Waste It

Time, for the most part, is barely tracked and sucked up by meetings and preparing for them.

Management

How to Avoid Hiring Selfish People

Look for employees who help people, share credit, and mentor colleagues, without the expectation of payback.

Management

The Best Way to Organize Your Business Communications Is Not to Organize Them at All

An IBM study found that people who do no email organization and rely on search are actually faster at finding emails than those who file them in folders.

Management

Three Management Mantras That Ben Horowitz Says Are Stupid

These persistent management phrases need to be removed from leaders’ vocabularies.

Management

This Type of Commute Makes People More Miserable Than Any Other

A new study confirms what commuters already know but goes one step further.

Management

How to Negotiate Your Salary When Everyone Knows What You Make

As more companies adopt transparent salary models, the rules of negotiation have turned upside down.