Patty Azzarello

Patty Azzarello is an executive, best-selling author, speaker, and CEO/Business Advisor. She became the youngest general manager at HP at the age of 33, ran a billion dollar software business at 35 and became a CEO for the first time at 38 (all without turning into a self-centered, miserable jerk). Visit her at Azzarello Group.

Patty Azzarello

Take My Job, Please! Your Essential Guide To Succession Planning

Planning who will take over for you doesn’t have to be painful. Here’s how to get started letting go of your job.

The 2 Most Important Decisions An Executive Makes

What to let go of–and ask yourself–when making a leap up the ladder.

Don’t Meet Like That. Meet Like This

Stop the status review meetings already! Here’s how to turn mind-numbing meetings into something productive and valuable.

Crucial Tips On Delegating The Right Way, So Everyone Wins

Do you jump in the second you see an employee doing something wrong? That and other weak habits could be hurting your company more than you can imagine.

Your Company’s Worst Habits, And How To Fix Them

That great idea from 2007 is now just an obsolete wrench in the works–so why are you still using it? Every company needs to trim the fat; here’s how to get the ball rolling.

Practical Work-From-Home Policies That Actually Work

The dust is beginning to settle around Marissa Mayer’s infamous Yahoo lockdown. Now it’s time to begin putting together a comprehensive strategy that works for your company.

How To Lay Down The Law If Your Team Keeps Blowing Deadlines

How you treat project deadlines can speak volumes about your organization’s commitment to the work. These tough-love tips will get you moving like a well-oiled machine.

Why Sharing Power At Work Is The Very Best Way To Build It

Good leaders build a powerful team by sharing power, not by building themselves up (falsely) by imagining they can hoard power personally.

How To Evolve Your Own Job And Stay Relevant

It’s dangerous to rely on your job description to tell you what to do, or to wait for your manager to fine-tune your job. It’s much safer, valuable, and satisfying to do it yourself. Here’s how.

Why Sales People Actually Hate Leads

Warm or cool leads generated by marketing are typically just annoyances to sales people–ones that get in the way of their “real” work. Here’s how smart companies handle CRM and their marketing and sales teams to put a stop to the waste and increase revenue.

How To Make Your Employees Feel Like Superheroes

When you get a whole team of people who are in the right roles and remove the constraints holding them back, they become unstoppable. Here’s how to do it.

You Can’t Be Effective When You’re Too Smart For Your Own Good

Congratulations, smartypants, you’ve got the highest IQ in the room–too bad it’ll make you a pain to work with. Here are 6 techniques for dealing when your genius just gets in the way.

To Make Big Plans A Reality, Be Clear–Crystal Clear–About Each Incremental Step

You have a world-changing idea. Great. So what are its component parts? Who’s going to do them? When? And what if there’s conflict?

Think You Can’t Take A Vacation? The Sound Business Reasons You Really Should

We know–you’re totally, utterly indispensable to your business. Right? Think again: Here are 10 reasons work is better off without you for a while. Now skeedaddle.

The 6 Huge Hiring Mistakes Everyone Makes

You need a top-notch team to do your best work–but you need to hire them first. Here’s half a dozen common ways managers shoot themselves in the human-resources foot.

10 Tips For Keeping Your LinkedIn And Business Connections Fresh

Maintaining your various social networks is entirely about giving. If someone hears from you–even once a year–when you don’t need anything, then when you ultimately do need something, it is very comfortable for both parties.

Impact

This startup lets you subscribe to support an army of drones that’s planting millions of trees

This devastating back-to-school ad is designed to shock parents into action

Think fake burgers are just for vegetarians? 95% of Impossible Foods’ customers are meat eaters

Creativity

Why Laura Dern, Olivia Wilde, and Zazie Beetz are telling the truth for True Botanicals

George Lucas has made more mistakes per hour than any other director

SNL fired Shane Gillis. Here’s what those defending him don’t seem to get

Co.Design

Three-quarters of plastic products are toxic

Ikea is spawning a cottage industry of startups that customize your furniture for you

One of America’s top designers quit at the height of his career. Now he’s back—with a vision

Work Life

Advice for founders dealing with defensive or troubled employees

How my Latinx upbringing made me a better leader

5 ways emotionally intelligent people deal with impostor syndrome