459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

Article discusses “appreciative inquiry,” a management tool developed by David Cooperrider, an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. Highlighted is its application at Roadway Express.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Management

Harvard Business School creates value through its ability to find great people, extract them from their companies, turn them into free agents, assemble them in one place in Boston, and then spit them out on an extremely predictable schedule in a manner that is user-friendly to people who want to hire them. It’s not the faculty members who are doing the most useful work at … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: MBA Related

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.

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

Economics has become the science of mathematical modeling. But economic behavior is better studied through human history.

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

I believe that if you work granularly, you can get a perception of things that isn’t available from the written analysis. Data can tell you a lot. Opinions without data are severely risky.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

Waves are caused by excesses of production, investment, and liquidity in the expansion phase that carries the seeds of its own destruction, leading to overproduction, investment and lending, shortages of raw materials, rising costs, and, eventually, declining demand, profits, and investment. People see the long view as deterministic. They are afraid that they can’t predict things over such a long cycle. But I like determinism. … [ Read more ]

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

It was another promise of the new economy: We’d finally move from the old-time rules of the old boys’ network to a workplace based on merit, performance, and skill — a workplace that would be more open to women. Forget about breaking the glass ceiling, the logic went, the new economy would break out of the whole box. That was the promise. Just how well … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: People, Women in Business

Aticle looks at Roger Martin, co-founder of Monitor Co. and new Dean at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and his attempts to change the way MBAs are taught, focusing on integrative learning.

Content: Article | Author: Ron Lieber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

And you think you know how to work a crowd? Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make group deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans — before they attend their first class!

Content: Article | Author: Linda Tischler | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

At Procter & Gamble, branding is almost everything. And in the age of the Web, almost everything is up for grabs. Here’s how P&G has turned the Internet into a device for listening to customers — and for experimenting with its brands.

Content: Article | Author: Fara Warner | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales

It’s the essence of competition: big versus little, strong versus slight, heavy versus light. Now imagine that you’re the one who’s little, slight, and light! How do you use your opponent’s strengths to your advantage? Take a lesson from former judo champ Jimmy Pedro.

Content: Article | Author: Jill Rosenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Marcus Buckingham teaches CEOs how to get the most out of their people and their organizations. His first lesson: Forget everything you think you know about being a leader.

Content: Article | Author: Polly LaBarre | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

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When you are faced with a decision – always chose the bolder option. The most extraordinary things are created by ordinary people.

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

Brands were built as a substitute for relationships. Today, they are the antithesis of relationships because they can’t — and shouldn’t — change based on information about me, the customer.

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

Leadership is an army you have to enlist in. You can’t get drafted into leadership. You can get drafted into management.

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

Create a “To-Don’t” list that contains tasks, rituals, and meetings that you should never waste your time on again. Then stick to it.

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

Roger Cass is the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom — the notion that we’re only 7 years into a 27-year expansion, the likes of which the world has never seen before. The future, Cass says, is already written. All we need is the confidence to accept it.

Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Economics, People

article looks at Prahalad’s foray into the business world with his and partner Ramesh Jain’s new startup, Praja.

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

Leader of Tricon Global Restaurants Inc., former CEO of PepsiCo, former senior director at McKinsey & Co. and former professor at Harvard Business School.

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