A leading supermarket chain in an eastern European Union country feared an 8-percent drop in sales as discounting giant Lidl was about to enter its market.

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When legendary CEO Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines passed away Jan.

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When we think of leaders, we don’t often think of failures, but one of the hallmarks of the best leaders is knowing how to fail well.

How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders—the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture, and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders?

With the click of your mouse you can turn a list of values into a bubble plot. No thought or effort is required. Simply sit back and let the software gods do the heavy lifting of transforming your list of numbers into a fancy graph. What could possibly go wrong?

In case you haven’t heard this one before, “I’m big in Japan” is a way of boosting yourself in some unverifiable fashion.

Developmental biologist Matthew Scott and I went from purely basic biological research in our lab at Stanford University, to discovering a target for drug development, to identifying a drug for a pediatric brain cancer called