9 Posts found for Author: William C. Taylor

As a business culture, we’ve made the lure of executive leadership hard to resist—and the job of leadership virtually impossible to do. An Atlantic essay sums up the dilemma of the contemporary business leader this way: “The more CEOs work and the more responsibilities they take on, the more isolated they become. Their entourages shield them from workaday headaches. Their spot at the top cuts … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management | Company: Rite-Solutions

There’s nothing quite as common as watching an established organization—a company that reached great heights in one era of technology, markets, and culture—struggle to regain its stature as a force for leadership in a new era. The work of deep-seated, sustainable change remains the hardest work there is. That’s why, over the past two years, I immersed myself in the struggles and triumphs of 25 … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

The most creative leaders I’ve met don’t aspire to learn from the “best in class” in their industry—especially when best in class isn’t all that great. Instead, they aspire to learn from innovators far outside their industry as a way to shake things up and leapfrog the competition. Ideas that are routine in one industry can be revolutionary when they migrate to another industry, especially … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Best Practices, Innovation, Management

I’m convinced that one of the big reasons for the failure of so many change programs is that by focusing almost solely on what’s wrong with their organizations, and by importing off-the-shelf strategies devised by outside experts consumed with what’s new, leaders undervalue what’s right with their organizations, and overlook home-grown strategies rooted in the wisdom of the past.

Content: Quotation | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Two questions demand the attention of leaders. The first is familiar: What keeps you up at night? What are the problems that nag at you? The second is less familiar, but even more important: What gets you up in the morning? What keeps you and your people more committed than ever, more engaged than ever, more excited than ever, particularly as the environment around you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Alan M. Webber, William C. Taylor | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Motivation

William C. Taylor is the founding editor of Fast Company and author of Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself. He believes we are living in the age of disruption, so we can’t do big things anymore if we’re content with doing things a little better than everyone else or a little differently than we did them … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Guy Kawasaki, William C. Taylor | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subject: Management

In Mavericks at Work, Fast Company cofounder William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre, a longtime editor at the magazine, give you an inside look at the “most original minds in business” wherever they find them: from Procter & Gamble to Pixar, from gold mines to funky sandwich shops. Want to stop doing business as usual? Then take some lessons from the 32 maverick companies Taylor … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Polly LaBarre, William C. Taylor | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Harvard’s Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership.

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, People

Internet marketing pioneer Seth Godin says he wants to change the way almost everything is marketed to almost everybody. Will you give him permission to come in and show you the future?

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The Four Rules of Permission
Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales