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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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BNET Video: Web 2.0 for the Enterprise

ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber talks to Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText, and others about why CIOs are starting to implement Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise.

Business Hacks

Turn Your Phone into a Scanner, Faxer, and Filer

If you've got a cameraphone with more than one megapixel resolution, then you can take advantage of a cool free service called scanR.

The Corner Office

The Right Hand Man in a $20 B Corporation

I'm fascinated by the "shadow government" that exists in some of the world's most complex organizations.

Sales Machine

Stop Kissing and Start Kicking

Prospects buy from people they like, right? Wrong. Prospects buy from people they trust.

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BNET Podcast: Becoming an Authentic Leader

Tags: General, BNET, Marketing, Strategy, Management, Workplace

In this podcast, we find out about some new research on multitasking from Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. We also talk to Bill George, the author of "True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership" about how to use your life experiences to become a great leader. Later, we help one of our listeners answer a delicate issue about salary during a job interview.