As a small business owner, I disregarded the importance of core values until we made our first hiring mistake. At the time, we were a close-knit team of four employees. We hired a fifth employee that ...

In the business world, values are standards of conduct that a company wants each member of the organization to follow. Top management seeks to establish a corporate culture in which certain values are ...

As your company expands and adds more employees, your culture may shift. While having more voices in the room isn't a bad thing, it doesn’t always leave room for in-depth discussions about the company ...

Dave Foster is CEO of AvreaFoster, a brand and marketing agency that helps B2B companies use the power of their brand to grow business. In the beginning—before your business became a business—it was ...

In addition to their job competencies, functional expertise and credentials, successful managers have personal characteristics that underlie their leadership skills. Integrity is one such ...

Most of our routine behaviors are not conscious choices. They’re either habits that run on autopilot, or they result from tacit judgments. Making conscious behavior choices in our long-term ...

I am responding to a recent letter to the editor, "Midwestern values misunderstood by many." Just as the letter takes exception to a Minnesota newspaper's editorial regarding Gov. Walz and his values, ...