It is in your business’s financial interests to hire only honest people. Here’s why honesty is a crucial quality of every member of your team and how to avoid hiring liars. What is honesty? Above all, honesty is a feeling, a disposition and an orientation toward the truth. Honest employees cannot tolerate lying, fudging data, misrepresenting themselves or their companies, ...

David Bowie predicted the future of music a long time ago, as Fortune ’s Mathew Ingram has noted. Less well known is that he also predicted the future of business a long time before it came to pass. Smart executives and entrepreneurs in all fields—not just entertainment—would do well to learn from how the Thin White Duke ran his commercial affairs. So here are three ...

Dress nicely. Be polite. Speak with confidence. You already know this advice for doing well on your job interview. But what you might not have considered is talking about your character. I guarantee that no other candidate will be discussing character, yet it is this element that distinguishes a competent employee from a truly stellar one. High-character employees are the ...

Pink-collar crime may be the least publicized kind of illegal activity in the U.S. and beyond, but it’s worth taking seriously. Criminologist Kathleen Daly popularized the term in the late 1980s, and pink-collar crime expert Kelly Paxton is concerned that the pandemic may lead to a rise in this form of criminal behavior. She explained to me what pink-collar crime is, how ...

Several of you have told me you would like more concrete examples as part of the course. As a first step in delivering on this request, I have added explainer videos for all the worksheets. For each of the four lessons below, find explainer video, filling in the worksheet using the example of an annual planning meeting. What is not a meeting Prepare the meeting ...

… It’s just that… It seems like a lot of work. Especially for a small business. To spend all this time writing out a detailed plan for the next five years when you can’t even predict the next 5 months, let alone stop working for 2 weeks to complete a plan that will live at the bottom of a drawer forever after. Is it really that important? It’s all about the verb Perhaps ...