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For too many of us, feeling anxious and overwhelmed has become the new normal. Workplace performance expert Jason Womack explains how to get a handle on your to-do list and bursting-at-the-(cyber)seams inbox.

There are three broad imperatives that organizations are striving to implement in order to meet the changing needs of the business and enable global growth.
These are:
Creating global leverage
Making decisions with better/broader information
Enabling agile execution.

Deeply held misconceptions about globalization, information and agility are holding organizations back from making necessary adaptations. In contrast, our empirical data illustrates the true state of business services as they exist at thousands of companies today.

There are people in every organization whose titles indicate they are leaders. Often, and unfortunately, their employees beg to differ. Oh, they don’t say it directly, not to the boss’s face, anyway. They say it with their ho-hum performance, their games of avoidance, their dearth of enthusiasm. Leaders—real leaders who have mastered their craft—don’t preside over such lackluster followers. If reading this makes you squirm with recognition, leadership expert John Hamm says you may have a problem lurking.

Twelve (for the price of ten) common workplace behaviors that drain everyone’s energy—and how to purge them in 2011.

The source of your exhaustion might not be the tasks you’re doing or the hours you’re working—it may be the actions of the people laboring beside you in the “salt mines.” Jon Gordon identifies twelve draining behaviors to watch out for—and explains what you can do to create a more nourishing workplace in 2011.

Here’s a lighthearted list of bullet points (but serious, nevertheless).

If you are a new CEO, could any of these be a problem in your organization? How are you going to tackle them?

Or are you one of the employees? If so, are you giving your new CEO a fair chance?

During the Internet boom, investors were mostly interested in the potential of a company. These days nothing is considered a sure thing and if your start-up business isn’t on the right track, or if you haven’t done your homework as an entrepreneur, then you won’t have much luck raising capital.

As someone who has coached successful businesses for years, Chris Lynch, vice president of economic development at the Irvine Chamber, provides ten tips to help you secure the financial support and funding your business may need to succeed.

10. Drake neglects to patent oil drill

In 1858 Seneca Oil Company sent Edwin Drake to Titusville, Pennsylvania, to investigate ways to extract oil from the ground. Oil bubbled up in the area, and sometimes it was collected from the surface, but the idea of drilling for it, in the same way that salt mines were drilled at the time, seemed far-fetched.

Although not strictly a Masters degree, the Master of Business Administration (MBA) is considered by many to be a must-have for a top level career in business.

As the number of schools offering MBAs has grown, a ranking system has developed around them, to give students guidance on the best colleges to apply for, and to help potential employers to target their recruitment efforts.

Many corporations like to think they have best practice processes already in place. Richard Ilsley of Synogis highlights the top 10 fundamental issues that must be considered with respect to any best practice process.

It is hard to find an organisation that is not using the term ‘best practice’ somewhere within its sales operation. It seems that no matter where you go, someone is talking about it and everyone wants it. But what is it and how do we know when we have it?

10. Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman, a business unit of Marsh & McLennan, is an international management consulting firm. Founded in 1984, the firm adopted its current form in May 2007 through the combination of three global consulting businesses.