Steve Murphy is the CEO of Epicor, a global leader providing flexible, industry-specific software designed around its customers' needs. Do you want to build a successful career in business? Then, ...

What’s in a word? Failure by any other name would be defeat. Is it the weight we give certain words, the context or the negative connotation with which they’re addressed? Does someone have the right ...

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics? What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk management? Such was the blogosphere's ...

There’s a stigma against failure. Beliefs that “It can’t happen to me.” “It shouldn’t.” “It won’t.” It does. No matter who you are, what you do, how you do it, where you do it — failure is waiting.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I study high performers in sports for lessons in business leadership. Sometimes you have to play on the roughest terrain out there ...

It’s a minor tragedy of the historical profession that Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s instincts as a partisan ultimately trumped his gifts as a scholar. The son of a distinguished historian, he published ...

The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank (First Republic), and the near calamitous fallout on the financial sector and many companies, should be a wake ...

At one time or another, every leader will experience some degree of professional failure. While the experience can be disappointing or frustrating, it can also serve as a powerful teacher, imparting ...

Such was the blogosphere's snarky tone last week when Washington & Lee University in Virginia announced Blair would speak Friday at a journalism conference there. But if the cheap irony of a famous ...