The boards that I see thriving are those that treat curiosity as a fiduciary responsibility. That means asking uncomfortable questions.

When university students get to create real value for others, their motivation, self-confidence, and academic performance ...

Our firm, FP Transitions, keeps a database on thousands of advisory firms, looking at data such as valuations. Our recent look into this data revealed a powerful truth: The most valuable firms are ...

At a London conference on value creation, experts argued that innovation succeeds only when systems, people, and leadership are ready to carry it. The 8th Global Conference on Creating Value took ...

As an immigrant who started my career as the only woman of color in a company of 2,000 engineers, I was afraid to speak up because I had compared myself to others who were more educated, more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about 21st century leadership, Agile, innovation & narrative. The value-creating enterprise was the theme of my last ...

Value is "the human cobweb," as Jerome Kagan aptly put it. To know anything about spiders, you have to understand the one thing that makes them unlike all other insects: They make cobwebs. To know ...