Steve Tobak is a consultant and former high-tech senior executive. He's managing partner of Invisor Consulting, a management consulting and business strategy firm. Contact Steve, follow him on Facebook, or connect on LinkedIn.
- Work-life balance: A common sense approach
How you decide to live your life is all about looking in the mirror and making choices
- The 5 stages of leadership development
As with human development, managers must evolve on their way to becoming mature leaders
- The accidental mentor: Your boss
Whether they realize it or not, managers have a huge impact on up-and-coming employees
- Newsflash: Facebook isn't real life
Instead of living our lives, we're watching them go by on a two-dimensional screen
- How to create a buzz
7 ways to gain viral traction for a product, blog, video, innovation -- anything
- Dude, where's my IPO?
Despite the hoopla over Facebook's IPO, the bar for going public is much higher than it used to be
- The business synergy myth
When it comes to companies, the whole is almost never greater than the sum of its parts
- How Facebook's IPO will change your life
Everything you need to know about the social networking giant's mega-stock offering
- Leaders: How to avoid an untimely exit
Commentary: Leadership lessons from Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's Resumegate scandal, among others
- How to deal with a bad boss
Commentary: Problems with your boss? A four-step process that will keep your career and sanity intact
- Is your boss a creep?
Commentary: As in the case of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, executives aren't always what they appear to be
- Personal relationships make or break careers
Contrary to popular wisdom, successful business leaders depend on personal relationships
- 10 big mistakes successful leaders make
Success brings unusual pressures and pitfalls -- it changes people, and not usually for the better
- In defense of austerity
Commentary: You can't live perpetually beyond your means -- it's true for people, companies and nations
- Should Yahoo fire CEO Scott Thompson?
Believe it or not, boards of public companies don't always fire CEOs who lie on their resume
Surviving a great loss can empower and motivate you to achieve great things
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Five things to consider before spending the time and money on outside consulting services for your business
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Why can't you and I avoid paying state tax as easily as a company can?
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Innovation and globalization have changed the world -- and broken the conventional mold of the charismatic leader
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