Welcome to the New, Improved BNET

(MoneyWatch) 

Eric Schurenberg, Editor-in-chief of BNET

BNET, the go-to place for management, has gone-to a better place. Your favorite business site has undergone a significant makeover. We've simplified the architecture, updated the look, and made it much easier for you to find your way around the site and to join the conversation with our contributors and other users.

What hasn't changed is our mission. BNET is devoted to helping business managers. We happen to think that leading colleagues in pursuit of business goals is tough, important and fulfilling work and that people who do it—like you—deserve a resource that makes it a bit easier.

We try to meet five needs at BNET:

1. You need to know what’s going on and what it means.

This goes deeper than simply keeping up with the news. What we try to tell you is what managers are doing in a wide variety of industries, how they are reaching their decisions and what it means for you. In the new BNET, you’ll find this opinionated take on the news in a section called “Commentary.”

2. You need management advice and inspiration.

We think leading people within an organization is a skill you get better at with practice. A lot of smart people—in companies and at B-schools—think a lot about how to do it, and many of them write for us. In the new BNET, you’ll find them in the section called “Leadership.”

3. You need advice managing your own career.

In a soft job market, it matters more than ever that you take you the right steps, acquire the right skills, and make the right decisions in your own career. You’ll find help in a new section called “Life at Work.”

4. If you own your own business, you need to hear from other owners.

Managing a workforce and a career is a different game when your name is on the door. That’s why we’ve added a new section, called Business Owners, in which most of the contributors are other owners, who know better than anyone the kinds of problems you face.

5. You need a lot more information than our editors and contributors could dream of

That’s why BNET has the most extensive library of business whitepapers, news articles, and useful tools than any business website. Soon to join this vast database is a new section called Executive Education, an open pipeline to top business schools around the world.

We know your job isn’t your family, and it isn’t the only thing that matters to a full life. But your life runs through your work. And your work ought to make you happy (most of the time), give you satisfaction and be a source of pride and accomplishment. At the soon-to-be-unveiled, redesigned BNET, we want to help you make that happen. Stay tuned.