SOURCE: Forbes
Great bosses are those leaders who build and groom their employees, motivating and challenging them to be better. But just how do great leaders build their teams without losing sight of the individual?

SOURCE: International Meetings Review
More than 50,000 union workers, including bartenders, guest room attendants and servers are set to strike when their contracts expire June 1 unless demands, including safer workplace regulations and higher pay, are not met. Authorities are advising travelers to avoid the Strip and Tropicana Avenue on May 22 when voting takes place.

SOURCE: Harvard Business Review
Free food, CrossFit classes and massage chairs are great incentives, but it's the company's behaviors, systems, and practices, aligned with a core set of values that make up a company's culture. Yet even great employees will leave when cracks begin to appear in the cultural facade.

SOURCE: Trade Show Executive
Expanding its presence into the Atlanta-metro area, Marketplace Events announced the acquisition of Semco Productions' three B2C events, including the Spring and Fall Atlanta Home Shows and the North Atlanta Home Show and Outdoor Living Expo. The acquisition increases Ohio-based Marketplace's portfolio to 64 events in 29 markets throughout the U.S. and Canada.

SOURCE: Inc.com
While anxiety might be the water that douses the creativity within, for some enterprising leaders its the fuel that stokes the flames of success. But a strong leader's anxiety, often masked as enthusiasm, could be detrimental to both the company and their employees without stopgaps to temper the blaze.

SOURCE: CMO.com
Despite reams of data available to organizations regarding their B2B customers, a new report on behalf of Dun & Bradstreet shows that less than 50 percent of sales and marketing decisions are being made using that data. On the upside, new practices in data management, including "advanced analytics techniques" are impacting sales, marketing and customer goals across the board.

SOURCE: ExhibitorOnline
Just in time for Exhibition Day 2018, the Exhibitor Advocacy Group -- a team of corporate exhibitors, union representatives, exhibitor-appointed contractors and others from the service industry -- announced the launch of a new website designed to expose and correct what one member referred to as "ill-considered truths" within the industry.

SOURCE: Fast Company
In a recent study of human resource leaders, more than 95 percent said that employee burnout was sabotaging workplace retention. Instead of seeing burnout as the sole responsibility of the employee, strong managers should look of these three top factors shows to contribute to employee burnout.

SOURCE: CEIR.blog
Despite the latest data-gathering methodologies and technologies, measurements of revenue, impact and quality shouldn't be so complicated as to hinder actionable results. Rather, a simplified measurement approach will glean more relevant information for improving and growing your business.