459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

If you focus on your values, then you’ll improve the “balance” between your business and personal lives. Give me a break. Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won’t simplify things. You’ll just discover even more stuff that’s important to you. You can do anything — but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development

You are about to meet 20 organizations that are in the business of changing expectations. They reshape reality – so that poor kids can attend college, so that people in the destitute corners of the world can get better health care, so that victims of human-rights abuses can be heard. Most of us see the world’s most daunting problems as impossible challenges. But these groups … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility (ESG)

It takes a strong stomach to listen to how other people see you.

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

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David Allen, one of the world’s most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace — without wearing yourself down.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Now, here’s the dilemma: A lot has been said and written about capabilities — but most companies don’t really understand how to plan for them. And capability is a factor that still doesn’t have an equal place in the business-planning process: It’s not at the table along with finance and marketing. This goes beyond the old problem of the HR department not having equal standing … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Ever wonder why it’s hard to make sense of most career-change advice? Maybe it’s because the books and gurus have it all wrong.

Content: Article | Author: Linda Tischler | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career

Clayton Christensen’s idea of “disruptive innovation” made him the unintended mascot of the dotcom boom. So what’s he thinking now?

Content: Article | Author: Polly LaBarre | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, People

I’ve learned that good performance and true job satisfaction come from exceeding what I expect of myself, not just what others expect of me. The key to job performance is first to realize that as an employee, I have many customers who expect me to deliver a quality service. And just as every great company works day and night to serve its customers, I must … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Charan has written or cowritten 10 books, including the top-selling Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Crown Business, 2002), with Larry Bossidy, and his latest offering, Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning (Crown Business, 2004). Unlike most consultants, he has no Web site, newsletter, or marketing team. His business comes by word-of-mouth referrals.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Consulting

Alan Kay’s famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual’s brilliance. It’s not as if innovators’ heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Innovation

Orthodoxy is the enemy of renewal. The future gets created by heretics. And every organization must continuously work to redefine itself in ways that ensure that it does not get held hostage to its own moribund business model.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Change Management

Two dominant figures of that era (19th-century England) were William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. Gladstone was a powerful public figure for more than 60 years. It was said that when you had dinner with Gladstone, you thought that you were with the most interesting, brilliant, and provocative conversationalist. And it was said that when you dined with Disraeli — an equally charismatic figure — you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Personality / Behavior

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When Lorraine Monroe became principal of Harlem’s Frederick Douglass School, it was well known for violence, poor attendance, and a low level of academic achievement. Five years later, student test scores ranked it among New York City’s best high schools.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

The catch-22 that early-stage companies always face is that they must weigh the advantage of time to market against the risk of not building a strong enough foundation. The situation gets played out in almost every decision made: product completeness versus product breadth, distribution strategy, capital structure, geography. Entrepreneurial companies have to fight that trade-off all the time.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship

It’s better to choose and to choose wrongly than not to choose at all. Fence-sitters of this world have the worst of every fate.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Decision Making

The world’s top executive coach explains why half of what a leader says may not be worth saying.

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Stanford University professor who teaches BUS G341 (“Personal Creativity in Business”)

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Thirty years ago, hardly anyone understood the question, “What color is your parachute?” Today, it’s the job hunter’s mantra. Richard Bolles reckons with what has changed in the world of careers — and, perhaps more important, what hasn’t.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Pink | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, People