As Interaction Associates celebrates its 40th year, Linda Dunkel considers the 9th Annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates — and how much more collaborative effort we will need to solve our biggest problems.

In a down economy, morale suffers and productivity can plummet. Avoid this trap with our free ebook, Fully Engaged!

Interaction Associates, founded in 1969, achieves a milestone anniversary this year. View our fun animation that offers you *Forty Wishes* for 2009.

President Obama is off to a fast start in driving the change he was elected to bring, and the task before him seems to grow more daunting by the day. Patty McManus explores four critical leadership practices Obama has embraced, and shows why new business leaders would be wise to embrace them, too.

Andy Atkins looks at why "quick fixes" don't work to keep employees engaged—and what to do instead to keep your workforce's morale from ebbing.