By Dr. Stewart D. Friedman-with Strategy + Business Magazine interview by Susan Cramm, leadership coach, author, and former CFO and CIO Do you ever feel as if you’re living multiple lives and that your various incarnations—executive, spouse, parent, friend, volunteer, artist, athlete—conflict with, rather than complement, each other? Many of us hold on tight to

In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. That’s why David Allen created Getting Things Done®. GTD is the work-life management system that has helped countless individuals and organizations bring order to chaos with stress-free productivity. After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things

Coach Benoit Foucher: Benoit’s mission is to assist men to develop talents, passions and contributions. Defining success in our own terms is the only real way to become successful. Men who do this create significant positive changes in the world. More from Benoit: “I profoundly believe we need to redefine success. All of us and

David Usher is a musician, author, entrepreneur and activist. When he is not making music, he is equally passionate about using technology to build new and interesting businesses. His company, Cloudid Creativity Labs brings together artists, designers and programmers to work on a vast range of innovative projects, from building web platforms to creative consulting.

An interview with author Gerry Lewis, with Donna Papacosta of Trafalgar Communications: How many times have you been in a meeting that feels like the movie Groundhog Day? How many times have you seen someone bore the audience with a pointless presentation? In the new book by Gerry Lewis, SHINE, you’ll learn how not to