How Lance Armstrong can bounce back

Plenty of shamed high-profile personalities have found their way back into the hearts of fans and scored endorsements again. A few things Armstrong can do now.

By Harrison Monarth

FORTUNE -- Fifteen years ago, Lance Armstrong launched one of the most successful nonprofit organizations to address the needs of people affected by cancer. Since then, Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation has raised more than $470 million to help more than 550 organizations conduct MORE

The power of the business matchmaker

Matchmakers can connect millions of people looking to pair talent with jobs, buyers with vendors, tenants with landlords, etc. The Fortune 500 should take note.

By John Hagel and John Seely Brown

FORTUNE - You can find matchmakers in many different forms in just about every society. Chinese, Hindu, and Jewish cultures have institutionalized the role for several millennia. At different points in time, talented matchmakers have held positions of status, MORE

Obama's second term: What will it mean for employers?

Federal agencies will continue to interpret the laws that protect employees very broadly and enforce them very aggressively.

By Jonathan A. Segal

FORTUNE -- Democrats have retained control of the White House and the Senate. Republicans have retained control of the House. So the voters, again, have voted for divided government.

What will it mean for workers and their employers? Much of it depends on how Republicans read and respond to the election MORE

A journey from established CEO to winery founder

A former retail exec describes how and why he jumped ship to start a winery in his 50s. By Jim Borsack

How one billion women will shake the business world

Nearly 1 billion women will enter the global economy for the first time in the coming decade alone, fundamentally shifting how the world works.

By DeAnne Aguirre

FORTUNE -- If you were to list the factors with the biggest potential impact on the business world over the next few decades, you'd likely cite some common themes - evolving technology, the globalization of markets, and fiscal challenges in Western countries, perhaps. But MORE

Is Obama or Romney a better leader? How to judge.

Here are five crucial leadership skills for the most powerful CEO of all -- the U.S. President.

By John Ryan

FORTUNE -- With the U.S. presidential election fast approaching, we will hear a lot from pundits and partisans over the next few months, not to mention President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney themselves, about how one candidate's leadership skills are superior to his opponent's.

You can take their word for it -- MORE

Our new place to complain about the boss: Everywhere

Management experts are beginning to argue that social media is intensifying worker dissatisfaction. So, in a socially networked world, what exactly must bosses do differently?

By Gary M. Stern

FORTUNE -- Complaining about the boss is a time-honored tradition. But management experts and analysts are beginning to argue that social media is intensifying this dissatisfaction (or at least shining a brighter light on it), which is affecting how some managers lead.

A MORE

The benefits of courting business failure

The greatest creative work exists on the edge of what was thought to be possible. Sometimes that means coming up with something that, for one reason or another, completely fails.

By Tham Khai Meng

FORTUNE -- We were in the rooftop bar just a few hours before it was strictly decent to be there. But with the news we'd just received, who could blame us?

I had to push a client to MORE

The rise of B-school summer camp for college students

These summer experiences offer deep dives into business fundamentals and are especially helpful to liberal arts graduates with little class work or training in business.

By David Bogoslaw

(Poets&Quants) -- For most college students, summer is a time for catching up with friends back home and working on your tan. But for a growing number of ambitious undergraduates, it's also a time for the equivalent of business school boot camp.

These summer MORE

4 cardinal sins of work communication

With the variety of communication methods available, it's easy to grow frustrated by annoying associates or clueless clients. It's also easy to find yourself becoming a pest.

By Katherine Reynolds Lewis

FORTUNE -- Everybody knows a communications outlaw. Maybe it's the colleague who sends you three emails in the space of an hour, each with partially formed ideas about a project. Or the conference call host who lets the conversation ramble, MORE