According to a recent survey, the most important trait employees look for in a boss they want to work for is fairness.

Employees don't work for companies, they work for their boss. So if you want to be more successful, reduce your turnover rates, and have the highest producing team you need to be fair. Read Fairness Is Good Management to learn how to be more fair to more of your people more often.

In the simplest terms, a leader is someone who leads. Obviously there is more to it than that. But what is it that makes someone a leader? Do you have what it takes to be a leader? Are leaders born that way or can it be learned? Read What Is A Leader? to find out how leaders do what they do and how you can too.

Putting the right people in the right jobs you can make your people, and yourself, more productive and happier at the same time. I've written before about how to avoid putting The Right People in the Wrong Jobs, so how do you put them in the right jobs? In the article I discuss using tests like the Keirsey Temperament Sorter to guide you.

Here's a different perspective on the use and potential misuse of this type of testing. Leslie Kossoff, one of the thought leaders in managerial leadership, writes in her Obtuse Angles blog Why I Don't Like Myers-Briggs. Like the rest of her blog, it's worth your time to read.

When you play a game, you keep score. But it doesn't matter how many runs you score, in a baseball game for instance, if the other team scores more. Whether you lose by one run or ten runs it's still a loss.

The same is true in business. Many business use KPI to keep score, but that isn't enough. You have to manage the actions that will make that score bigger. Read Just Keeping Score Isn't Winning to learn how.