Bowman’s Strategy Clock can help you understand how companies use strategy in the marketplace. By understanding these eight basic strategic positions, you can analyze and evaluate your current strategy.

"The Profit" is a TV reality show that is now in its third season and features Marcus Lemonis offering struggling small businesses money and his expertise in exchange for some percentage ownership in their business.

The best resource for building a great company is your employees. That’s the belief of the Participation Age. The Participation Age embraces knowledge workers and acknowledges that all workers have knowledge.

Most organizations understand the need for executives to get help to deal with the complexities of an ever changing market. Seismic changes in the economy, government and global competition have created the need for all executives to have “outside eyes” to help guide them through unknown terrain

“We had been using the phrase, 'Clients for Life,' in our organization for some time before we started using it as our tag line,” explained CEO Ralph Simpson. “Now it’s come to have great meaning throughout the company and helps guide our strategies and how we develop the organization.”

In the recent past, we've witnessed the public downfall of leaders from almost every area of endeavor—business, politics, religion, and sports. One day they’re on top of the heap, the next, the heap’s on top of them.

1. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is a pioneer in the world of internet commerce, and was instrumental in defining the space that is now defining may aspects of the internet world.

The difference between a leader and a manager: “With the rise of the knowledge worker, one does not ‘manage’ people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of every individual.” – Peter Drucker

There’s lots of talk in the halls of management consultants these days about the lack of leadership and the unnecessary rise of managers in our country and in corporate America. What is the difference between managers and leaders and why is this a concern for the pundits?

Greg McKeon, author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less," makes a case for eliminating everything that is not essential in order to make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.