Management

For the long-term unemployed or those workers looking for a change, getting an interview in today's market may feel like a win in itself. But once you're in the door, interviewers often put you through an obstacle course of deceptive questions with double meanings or hidden agendas. Do you know how to read the subtext?

If you're anything like me, you were probably surprised to see Kathy Ireland on the cover of US financial magazine Forbes — and not just because she's traded in her tousled '80s locks for an immaculate, Lady Bird Johnson-esque bouffant.

A few years ago, a group of rising-star executives gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to take part in a special competitive event. Each was to present a business plan to be evaluated by the entire group. The best ideas would then be recommended to a team of venture capitalists for final evaluation. Participants saw this as a great opportunity to see how their ideas compared to others in an elite peer group.

Facebook's cash box is about to get a lot heavier.

A college diploma is not a prerequisite for obtaining an absurd amount of wealth. Out of the 400 richest people in the U.S., 63 entrepreneurs don’t have one — more than 15 per cent of the list.

Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, published “Why Smart Executives Fail” eight years ago.

Everyone can recognise a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one?

I was a young CEO and I needed answers. Steve Jobs had them. There was only one thing to do.

I think everyone should blog, especially entrepreneurs, so here are my top 9 reasons why you should be blogging if you aren't already.

Robin Hanson, Megan McArdle, and Will Wilkinson all think Steve Jobs gave bad advice to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford University. They think Jobs’s advice to follow your heart and “never settle” on a career you don’t love had more to do with Jobs’s own extraordinary talent and good fortune than the circumstances of the average person.