459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

Schwerpunkt, a German term meaning organizational focus, “represents a unifying medium that provides a directed way to tie initiative of many subordinate actions with superior intent as a basis to diminish friction and compress time.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Social responsibility has captured the attention of a new generation of MBA students. At a time when trust and benevolence are scarce, these students aim higher. Here’s how.

Content: Article | Author: Ryan Underwood | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Whether striking a new business partnership or building a coalition government, you can benefit from these tricks of the trade. Two veteran negotiators share their strategies for forging and maintaining successful long-term relationships.

Content: Article | Author: Linda Tischler | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Each of us sees the world through our own lens, says one diversity consultant. You can’t move beyond your own biases if you don’t recognize them. Take this test to see how your belief systems compare with others’.

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

If you answered “False,” you may need Unicru’s smart-assessment program — a fast-paced, real-time screening system that quickens your hiring process, improves your hit ratio, and boosts your employee-retention rate. And that’s the truth.

Content: Article | Author: Alison Overholt | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Human Resources

The marketing excesses of the past few years left broken pieces scattered across the branding landscape. As a result, many companies are left with bogged-down, boring — even dying and dead — brands. Now take a look at your brand: Do you know what’s broken? Do you know how to fix it?

Content: Article | Author: Scott Bedbury | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Do you need a fresh start on creativity? Stanford professor Robert Sutton is a unique voice with an urgent message about how to generate and capitalize on new ideas.

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

Mergers and acquisitions are, once again, shaking up all kinds of industries. The big question: How do you do them right? Here’s the playbook according to Washington Mutual, one of the best in the business.

Content: Article | Author: George Anders | Source: Fast Company

What you know is trivial. The real issue is what do you know how to do?

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

My experience…taught me the three critical drivers of professional success, the three elemental particles of love in business. They are knowledge, networks, and compassion. To be an impact player in business, you simply have to know more than most other people know. That means taking the power of ideas seriously, reading books voraciously, and developing a system of organizing what you’ve learned. But all of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

Christopher Lochhead, former chief marketing officer at Scient, knows a bit about delivering bad news. So listen up when he recounts the 13 biggest marketing blunders a battered company can make. Ignore them at your peril.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Be careful not to worship cool. It’s a false god.

Given where the world is going, I recommend that companies be more concerned with their karma than with being cool.

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

Leaders pay a lot of lip service to the notion of rewarding failure, but few organizations hold failed effort on the same level with success. Often, they have a forgive-and-forget policy. Forgiveness is crucial, but it’s not enough. In order to learn from mistakes, it’s even more important to forgive and remember. The only kind of failure that deserves to be punished is inaction. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, Success / Failure

The mantra that we have all lived with for the past five years is, “Innovate or die!” But it’s just as accurate to say, “Innovate and die.” All the excitement about all things new obscured the fact that most new ideas are bad and most old ideas are good. It’s a Darwinian principle: The death rate of new products and companies is dramatically higher than … [ Read more ]

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

In an economy filled with surprise and uncertainty, being an effective leader means being a good teacher. But how do you lead and teach at the same time? Who are your most important students? And what about recess?

Content: Article | Author: Chuck Salter | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management | Industry: Education / Training

A company’s brand has almost nothing to do with its products or services anymore. Branding is really a function of the dialogue between a company and its constituents. The more meaningful that dialogue, the stronger the brand.

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

The first time you say something, it’s heard, the second time, it’s recognized, and the third time, it’s learned.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Education, Teaching

Forget everything that you’ve ever learned about mentoring, especially the idea of hitching your wagon to a rising star. Here’s how Intel is reinventing the old approach to mentoring to teach, inspire, and reconnect its employees.

Content: Article | Author: Fara Warner | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Human Resources

We got it right when we said that we were in search of excellence. Not competitive advantage. Not economic growth. Not market dominance or strategic differentiation. Not maximized shareholder value. Excellence…Search of Excellence — even the title — is a reminder that business isn’t dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers.

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

Nearly 100% of innovation — from business to politics — is inspired not by “market analysis” but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

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