459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

This article examines the work of Ken Wilber, specifically his four quadrants – composed of “individual interior” (upper left), “individual exterior” (upper right), “collective interior” (lower left), and “collective exterior” (lower right).

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Judy Rosenblum has dealt with all of the obstacles that keep companies from getting smarter. Here is her 10-point curriculum for getting smart about learning.

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior | Industry: Education / Training

Tom Kelly is using the Web to reinvent training inside the world’s most Internet-centric big company. Here’s what he’s learned about e-learning — and how it’s changing the style and the substance of training at Cisco Systems.

Content: Article | Author: Anna Muoio | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Education | Industry: Education / Training

Some folks do have all the luck — and psychologist Richard Wiseman can teach you how to be one of the lucky few.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Pink | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

Is it time to downsize my dreams? What’s the smartest way to change careers? How do I keep my people working harder if I can’t pay them more? How do I lead for the long haul? Twenty-one make-or-break questions about your current job, your next career, and life inside your company — and no-nonsense answers from the world’s savviest experts. You’ve got questions? We’ve got … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Balance is not a math problem: It’s not a matter of shifting a few hours each week from one activity to another. If it were that easy, everyone with a PalmPilot would look as serene as the Dalai Lama. Balance is a design problem — a matter of coming to terms with your values and priorities, of reckoning with the trade-offs that they require. Balance … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Time Management, Work

Like the King, King David knew how to strum a person like an instrument.

Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

One problem with how most companies deliver information is that they expect people to spend too much time at one sitting. We work in a world of limited attention spans, unlimited demands on people’s time, and endless multitasking. Learning programs have to reflect these realities: most e-learning is still anchored in the mind-set that learning means going somewhere for 8 hours at a time to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Learning, Training & Development

The greatest sources of satisfaction in the workplace are internal and emotional. A look at the work of the Gallup Organization’s Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman and their Q12.

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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Seth Godin offers nine ways to think about the task of organizing for ongoing growth.

Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

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

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell, believes that “geek” is a badge of honor. (After all, he is one!) But how do you manage these geek gods? Just follow his nine-point techie tutorial.

Content: Article | Author: Russ Mitchell | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

Ultimately, e-learning will be most effective when it no longer feels like learning — when it’s simply a natural part of how people work: Today, people say, ‘I’m working,’ and what they’re doing is quickly answering emails and voice mails. They don’t say, ‘I’ve got the next two hours slotted for email.’ If you do things in small chunks, they become just another part of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Learning, Training & Development

I don’t think people ever set out to fail. They’re new, they’re excited, they see themselves as successful, and those of us making the hiring decision also see them as successful. Then something happens. The potential goes unrealized, or the eagerness dissipates. I always ask myself, Was there something that I could have done to make this person successful? Was it a bad fit that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management

“This is the crime of the century: Women get to the top, and then they are murdered in cold blood. People are talking about the murders, but nobody is doing a Joe Friday-style investigation into who the perps might be. I want to know who or what is killing the great women of the corporate world? The clues lie deeper than the misuse of strategy, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Women in Business

Admit to yourself, “I am not indispensable.” Repeat over and over. Most people don’t want to admit this. Most people are wrong.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Observations, Perception

Jerry Sternin’s job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.

Editor’s Note: I highly recommend this interesting article…

Content: Article | Author: David Dorsey | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Change Management

The introduction is over. The lights have dimmed. All eyes turn toward the hotshot speaker — you! If you’re going to knock them out, you’d better know the new rules for making a pitch.

Content: Article | Author: Todd Balf | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

In the new economy, all work is project work. And you are your projects! Here’s how to make them all go Wow!

Editor’s Note: despite the reference to the New economy and the fact that this was written in 1999, there is some good tidbits in this article of lasting value.

Content: Article | Author: Tom Peters | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Project Management