“Winning” in biz-speak means meeting an organization’s top objectives. Get your organization primed for the win by creating an accountability-based culture. Here are seven steps that will help your organization produce results.

Audits are a necessary evil. On the positive side, audits provide accountability and can help improve efficiency. An audit of financial statements can also provide valuable benchmarks for strategic planning.

Make the most of your board. Learn from Guy Kawasaki, who has been on both sides of board meetings. Take his advice on everything from building an effective board to managing meetings.

Lunch for a board meeting: $68. Director stock options: 1,000 per meeting. Being saved by a director: Priceless.

A good board adds intelligence, contacts, and resources to an enterprise. Few decisions are as important to a company’s long-term success as the composition of its board of directors. How does a first-time CEO use their board to maximum effect?

In the business world, Directors and Officers (D&O) Insurance is often used when forming a company’s first board or bolstering a current board. This article lays out several key issues for entrepreneurs to thinking about when considering or buying D&O insurance.

Effectual boards of directors can strengthen companies. Ineffectual boards can cripple them. What’s the difference?

Too often, environmental initiatives are equated only with large investments like Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification or green product development. Skally Management, a family business that owns and manages apartment buildings, pursues eco-management with initiatives and practices that are environmentally sound, commercially beneficial, and achievable by other small businesses.

With the nation's ethics deteriorating in the wake of widespread corporate scandal, entrepreneurs need to examine questionable practices in their own milieu, such as inflating expectations to attract funding, writes the author. Included is a look at the unlikely course this former high-tech company founder has taken in order to adhere to principles.

This article examines how Blue Plate Restaurant Company has achieved excellent commercial outcomes by investing in employees. Blue Plate Restaurant Company has achieved sustained, profitable growth primarily based on consistently exceptional customer service. As co-owner David Burley puts it, “we treat our employees like we expect them to treat our customers.”

For harried business owners already stretched thin, finding the time and money to support community and charitable causes may seem impossible. Yet investing in corporate philanthropy can yield some surprising dividends.

Keeping tabs on your industry, competition, and market is key to business survival. But watching those signs and ignoring your immediate community is won’t help your company to grow. There are many reasons why being involved with your community makes sound business sense.

Sabanes-Oxley legislation (SOX) was borne out of corporate malfeasance during the wild 1990s. So what, exactly, does SOX entail? This primer covers how private companies can comply.

Governance planning is critical to your company's future success, but can be difficult with a family business. Ensure the continued success of your family's organization with these governance tips.