459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

Think fast. Think under pressure. That’s how you win in business — and in chess. Here is a master class from Bruce Pandolfini, one of the world’s great chess teachers, on how to think like a champion.

Content: Article | Author: Anna Muoio | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Strategy

Anita Borg is a living legend among computer scientists. She is also leading a worldwide movement to redesign the relationship between women and technology. Some of the world’s most powerful technology companies are finally paying attention.

Aside from being known for her pioneering work in fault-tolerant operating systems and for tools she developed to predict the performance of microprocessor memory systems, Borg also cofounded, with … [ Read more ]

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

Martin Sorrell, chairman and CEO of WPP Group PLC, has enjoyed a bird’s-eye view of the changing logic of global competition. Back in 1986, he left the high-flying British ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, bought a shopping-cart manufacturer — Wire and Plastic Products PLC — and turned it into a vehicle for assembling one of the world’s most powerful advertising conglomerates. He acquired J. Walter … [ Read more ]

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

Putting a slow-growth company on the track to double-digit growth requires senior executives to reckon with new ideas about serving customers and deploying assets. It also requires them to set aside old ideas about growth that no longer apply. One such outmoded idea is the notion that new growth invariably comes at the expense of the core business. In fact, just the opposite is true: … [ Read more ]

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

Dr. Robert Buckman is a cancer specialist who teaches doctors — as well as executives at IBM, Andersen Consulting, and Upjohn — how to break bad news: “You can’t let emotions interfere with your message.”

Content: Article | Author: Curtis Sittenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Navy commander D. Michael Abrashoff uses a leadership model that’s as progressive as any in business.

Content: Article | Author: Polly LaBarre | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

It’s every company’s goal — but it’s one that few manage to achieve. Here are strategies and tactics to make your company grow again, drawn from in-depth research on companies that have been registering double-digit growth for years. Tired of cutting costs and downsizing dreams? This is your wake-up call.

Content: Article | Authors: Adrian J. Slywotzky, Karl Weber, Richard Wise | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

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Branding is not about communicating a message; it’s about engaging in a relationship.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales

It is an urgent question: How can we increase profits if we can’t raise prices? The answer demands revolutionary thinking — new insights about strategy and human behavior, turbocharged with software, mathematics, and rapid-fire experimentation. Is your company ready to master the new era of pricing? Are you prepared to pay the price of failure?

Content: Article | Author: Charles Fishman | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Pricing, Strategy

Seth Godin (the idea virus and permission marketing guy) is back, this time hawking a nebulous concept he refers to as Purple Cow. As you might guess from my tone, I am not a fan of this article – in general I find it to be prescribing a one-size fits all solution to everything in sight, whether flawed or not. And, it is … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales

In the eat-or-be-eaten world of job hunting, if you misfire, you’re dead. Here’s how to hunt like a headhunter — and turn your next job interview into a sure kill.

Content: Article | Authors: Bill Breen, Nick Corcodilos | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career

If you want to recruit superstars — the best of the best — then you have to find them differently, evaluate them differently, and offer them jobs differently. Here’s a short course from John Sullivan, the Michael Jordan of hiring.

Content: Article | Author: Gina Imperato | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Human Resources

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you’re doing. And in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

Sperling is chairman of the Apollo Group Inc., a Nasdaq-traded holding company with a market cap of $7.5 billion, and founder of the University of Phoenix

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

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com

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

These personality tests will show your true colors.

Content: Article | Author: David Beardsley | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Leigh Steinberg, the most powerful agent in sports, tells free agents in the business world how to negotiate great deals – and how to deal with their fear of negotiation.

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Negotiation

The challenge for executives is to manage the tension between an expansive purpose and the day-to-day shocks of the business environment. “The way to make sense of that dilemma is to initiate a conversation about what’s purpose and what’s just practice.”

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

To finish first, you have to work fast. Ray Evernham – NASCAR’s top crew chief and the man behind race-car champ Jeff Gordon – offers lessons from the pit on teamwork, surprise, and the pursuit of perfection.

Content: Article | Author: Chuck Salter | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management