At the height of the dot-com and e-commerce manias, leading thinkers predicted a day when knowledge workers would stay home for work. But now come data showing that from 1997 to 2001, the number of full-time telecommuters stayed roughly the same.

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed life and business as we know it. Today, CEOs across America are taking the time to learn a skill few ever thought they would need: how to handle a crisis.

We never spend enough time ensuring that the language we use to describe our individual companies communicates our message clearly.

Enthusiasm is more contagious than the common cold, and a whole lot more pleasant.

As the clock chimed midnight and the old year gave way to the new, you probably resolved: “I will grow my business in 2002.”

Calling himself a forensic engineer, Joe Lstiburek has done more work than he’d like finding problems and fixing failed buildings.

Among a small but growing group of developers who build lifestyle communities, an unusual land-visioning process is taking root.

In an era when some of the biggest home building companies are consolidating, the founders of one privately owned company made a very different decision.

Wherever you go in America, strip malls are part of the landscape. That is the beauty of Randy Jackson’s proposed housing solution for land-strapped Orange County, Calif. If it works there, it probably will work in many other places.