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Make Your Meetings Matter

Long silences. Tapping PDAs. The faint buzz of snoring. Sound like a meeting you led recently? Use our tips to make face-time more focused and productive.

Peek Inside Your Competitor's Business

One chronic underperformer can hold back an entire team. Here's how to let someone go with professionalism--and compassion.

Learning to Say "You're Fired"

What are your rivals' future plans? Will they launch new products? How profitable are they? Find out � the legal way � with our step-by-step guide to competitive research techniques.

Tame Your Boss

Need help managing your manager? Try these techniques to master the proper care and feeding of your most important professional relationship.

Now Hiring: Brilliant People

Time to interview job candidates? Learn the secret techniques smart companies use to identify tomorrow�s most promising talent.

The Secret to Selling your Big Idea

You've got a brainstorm. It�s bold, it�s brilliant�and it might even make you rich. Learn how the pros transform great insights into big career breakthroughs.

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Video: The Secret to Selling Your Idea

You have an idea � it�s bold, brilliant, and creative. But how do you sell your great idea to the people who can actually implement it?

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Technology Pros Get a Mixed Career Bag

Good news for the IT world: average compensation for technology managers has finally entered the six-digit realm...

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Map Your Life with �My Maps�

One of the coolest things about the new features that Google recently released is something called "My Maps."

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Worst Sales Manager Contest

I once worked for a regional sales manager who ran weekly "status review" meeting where he�d pick a direct report at random and spend an hour tearing his head off.

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BNET Podcast: The Wisdom of Crowds

In this podcast, we get some tips on dealing with difficult co-workers from management consultant Susan Heathfield. We also talk to New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki about the "wisdom of crowds" � a simple but almost counterintuitive notion that large groups of people are smarter than an elite few � no matter how intelligent they are. Find out how to apply this idea to your management strategy.

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