JOHN KADOR

William F. Buckley, the great conservative publisher of The National Review, had attitude and self-confidence in spades. Here are two...

Do you know what’s not going well? Shortly after Alan Mulally joined Ford in 2006, he convened a staff meeting. He asked every department...

Let’s face it, many businesspeople dread the idea of interviewing candidates.  HR people don’t like it, although it’s their job, but...

Did you know that it’s possible to tell elaborate and nuanced stories about almost any subject in English using words of only one...

Native-born speakers of English often don’t understand how confusing our language is.  I was born in Hungary, so I remember how confusing...

Should CEOs have personal blogs?  An increasing number of CEOs do. In the September/October issue of Chief Executive, I report on a...

The Berrett-Koehler Author Retreat is unique.  As far as I can tell, no other publisher has spawned a self-sustaining cooperative...

I recently covered Chief Executive magazine’s CEO of the Year event honoring Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally. The link to that event is...

In a recent Wall Street Journal discussion, a ghostwriter asked a good question: Say you’re in a business, as I am, where you do a good...

Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust Filled with examples from the news and my own personal...