This week, Small Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks to business owner Hamish Gordon about leadership development.

Given the recent scrutiny applied to Fonterra's board size, Staples Rodway Director Tracy Hickman considers the optimal board - in theory and in practice.

Being on the receiving end of dirty looks and gruff words can lead to this behaviour spreading "like a disease" through a workplace, a new study suggests.

Deep inside Facebook's massive new HQ, the largest open-office workspace in the world, sits the desk of Lindsay Russell.

Zappos, an e-commerce platform, has 1,500 employees and no managers. Many are studying the company trying to find its strategy for success.

Robyn Pearce talks how to raise successful young adults. "If we always seek to protect our children from adversity, we weaken, damage and distort the precious young lives we're entrusted with."

A steady job with time to spend with friends and family is most important for millennials.

Hotel companies use mock rooms to fine-tune their designs and decide whether existing blueprints are practical and efficient.

Christmas Day is less than four weeks away and the busy silly season is kicking in.

Greg Fleming meets two skilled artisans who -- despite our increasingly teched-up world.

I'm delighted with the comments coaching clients make after they start applying more focus in their daily time management choices, Robyn writes.

A new global survey has revealed weight gain is the biggest worry among those working from home.

With a picture on his Facebook page of a car seat, a stroller and his dog, Mark Zuckerberg announced he'd be taking two months of parental leave.

Vocal expression of opinions in the office can cause problems for bosses as well as workers.

Coffee is big business and high-end firms are competing to be the one that provides the best for their staff.

Alan Clarke, who left retirement business Abano for Hellaby Holdings, tells Anne Gibson of his plans in his new role

Robyn Pearce talks keys to effective delegation.

Sarsons' research may explain some of the disparities in economics by pointing out another way that women may be discriminated against.

Robyn Pearce talks about the effects of being too available. "Many go home every night frustrated by the myriad interruptions that block them from attending to their real work."

Kiwis companies, it seems, are liberal on the idea of employees with visible tattoos.

November 10 is Equal Pay Day. There is 14 per cent of the year left to run and, as New Zealand women on average earn 14 per cent an hour less than men, women effectively work from now until the end of the year unpaid.

NZ companies are failing to develop skills in graduates say recruitment specialists.

As I work with people around the world on their productivity issues, everyone shares one common challenge - too much time spent on email.

More US employers, it seems, are getting comfortable with the idea of employee ink.

Auckland prices see family looking further afield to find a home

National Boss' Day began in 1958 when Patricia Bays Haroski, an employee registered the holiday with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

A US-designed work station allows users to work on computers while lying down.

People often like to groan about how their job is "killing" them. For many U.S. workers, that statement appears to be true.

Robyn Pearce talks strategies to manage when things seem overwhelming.

Business school professors have a knack for finding some pretty bizarre links between the personal lives of CEOs and the professional results at the companies they run.