This article appears in the February 27, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine   BHP Billiton's Marius Kloppers isn't scared of betting big on fracking, despite having no experience with it. "Shale gas is like coal mining," he shrugs. Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife [...]

Recommendations can enhance your profile, but they won't make or break your chances of getting a job. With 135 million members and two people joining per second, LinkedIn is becoming ever more important as a professional networking and job search tool. Recruiters and hiring managers increasingly rely on the site to [...]

Image via Wikipedia (and not in the way you think) “Women: stop making start-ups about fashion, shopping and babies,” wrote Venturebeat’s Jolie O’Dell on Twitter a few months back. “At least for the next few years. You’re embarrassing me.” Ouch. This tweet heard ‘round the lady blogosphere set off a ripple effect of [...]

This article originally appeared in the Feb. 27, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. The most infallible political predictor—are you ready?—is the Irish betting site Intrade.com. As of early February Intrade was pegging President Obama’s reelection chances at 54%. What fancy algorithm guides Intrade’s forecast? Easy: 54 cents of every dollar bet [...]

“We have the power inside to be great,” says women’s advocate Helene Lerner, “but oftentimes it’s covered by false beliefs about ourselves.” The Emmy Award-winning television producer and host and founder of the website WomenWorking penned new book In Her Power: Reclaiming Your Authentic Self to help women better embrace their [...]

This article is by Aaron Kwittken, chief executive and founder of Kwittken & Co. Worldwide. The past several months have been rather quiet on the corporate crisis management front, post-BP, Toyota and Goldman. Fear not: Enter Apple and allegations of poor working conditions in China and Carnival’s Costa Concordia shipwreck. Crisis [...]

Over at The Weekly Standard, Joy Pullmann notes that a draft IRS regulation could cause serious headaches for charter schools around the country. The IRS is proposing new rules that might be construed to say that charter school teachers are private employees, meaning they could no longer participate in government [...]

It always hurts when organizations lie. Lying hurts the organization, the employees, the organization's partners, the organization's prospects, and most importantly, lying hurts the organization's constituents. When an organization does something that sparks a"'reputation crisis", the absolute worst way to respond is to lie. As the reputation crisis of the Susan J. [...]