459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning — much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business … [ Read more ]

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

Tough question: How can you hold onto your best people? Honest answer: You probably can’t. The real goal is to keep great people working with you, even after they’ve stopped working for you.

Content: Article | Author: Scott Kirsner | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

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?

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

Five rules for mapping information so others can find their way.

Content: Article | Authors: Mark Fischetti, Richard Saul Wurman | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

If you ask people to go through a difficult period of time, they have to trust that you’re sharing it with them.

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

Abby Conklin discusses her slow start and fast finish as cocaptain of the Lady Vols — and what she learned about leading.

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

Listen while you can so that you can lead when you must.

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

Our strategies must be tied to leading-edge customers on the attack. If we focus on the defensive customers, we will also become defensive.

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

As commander of the USS Benfold, he initiated a leadership turnaround that rocked the Navy. Now D. Michael Abrashoff wants to help your company chart a better course. Here, he offers five guiding principles for leaders in tough times.

Content: Article | Author: Anni Layne Rodgers | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Success / Failure

Here are the five naked truths about women in business. Together they add up to one big message: The future of business depends on women.

Content: Article | Author: Margaret Heffernan | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Women in Business

Start with Craig Vogel and Jonathan Cagan. Integrate style and technology with a dash of fantasy. Apply to everything from toasters to cars.

Also see Vogel and Cagan’s list of the top-15 best-designed consumer products of the past 100 years at:
Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Miscellaneous

How do you develop strategy in an uncertain economy? Meet TINA: There Is No Alternative. First, Royal Dutch/Shell pioneered the system of scenario planning to anticipate dramatic changes in the world. But when everything starts to change, the way to do planning is to focus on things that don’t change.

Content: Article | Author: Ian Wylie | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Strategy

Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo — Five Half-truths of Business — as a wake-up call.

The five:
1. We’re only in it for ourselves
2. Corporations exist to maximize shareholder value
3. Companies need CEOs who are heroic leaders
4. Companies need to be lean … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, Kunal Basu, Robert Simons | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Trends / Analysis

Here’s Fast Company’s eight-point program for presentations guaranteed to keep your listeners on the edge of their seats.

Content: Article | Author: Eric Matson | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

A trademark plays defense. It’s the way that you protect what you’ve already built up. It’s your copyright, your patents, your table stakes. But a trustmark plays offense. It’s the emotional connection that lets you go out and conquer the world!

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

Now let’s get down to business. Simulation lets you play to learn — without having to play for keeps.

Content: Article | Author: Peter Carbonara | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Best Practices

The worst thing about recent business scandals is their lingering aftereffect: How can you move forward when you don’t know who you can depend on? Karl E. Weick says the answer is inside highly reliable organizations. For them, uncertainty is the “good stuff.”

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

No company likes to dismiss its talented employees because of a rotten economy. But there’s a way to keep people working with you even after they stop working for you. Here is a five-point program on how to build a successful alumni network for your company.

Content: Article | Author: Christine Canabou | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

founded Morino Associates which became Legent Corp. (sold to Computer Associates). Now heads the Morino Institute, which is building a community of “netpreneurs” through a Web site ( Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management