The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching. Executive coaching may sound like a good idea, but buyer beware. Coaches often make bad situations worse. When you have an executive with a problem, a psychological evaluation should be your first step on the way to a solution.

The People Who Make Organizations Go-or Stop. The real work in most companies is done informally, through personal contacts and conversations that don't necessarily follow the same path as the org chart. How can executives manage such amorphous networks? Start by focusing on those employees in informal networks who play four critical roles.

Frontiers. Have Your Objects Call My Objects. Imagine the possibilities if any item in any supply chain could tell you where it was and what was happening to it. And imagine quickly, because object-to-object technology is already helping companies reduce costs, enhance security, and improve the customer experience.