459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

co-inventor of the Palm Pilot and co-founder of Handspring

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management | Industry: Consumer Electronics

McKinsey & Co. surveyed 6,900 senior executives and young managers from 56 companies to figure out the secret to winning the battle for great people. Here is an excerpt from the report on the seven “talent imperatives” that are essential for winning the war for talent. The seven:
1. Instill a talent mindset at all levels of the organization — beginning … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Sources: Fast Company, McKinsey & Company Inc. | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

How do you set long-term strategy in an economy that moves at the speed of the Net? Is there a difference between a “business strategy” and an “Internet strategy”? And who makes strategy these days? John D. Noble, vice president of corporate Internet strategy at Putnam Investments, is wrestling with those and other questions.

Content: Article | Author: Amy Wilson Sheldon | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Arte Nathan was VP of human resources for Mirage Resorts Inc. in 1998 when it launched Bellagio — a lavish resort even by the standards of a city famous for its excess. Everything about Bellagio was larger than life, from its 3,000 rooms to its stunning art collection of original masterpieces. Equally lavish was the challenge that confronted Nathan: Hire 9,600 workers in 24 weeks. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Human Resources | Industry: Hospitality

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Robert Greene’s controversial book, “The 48 Laws of Power,” lays out a code of conduct that appears diametrically opposed to Fast Company’s principles and precepts for the new economy. Here, we pit Greene’s laws against Fast Company models and mentors. Whose power schemes make sense to you?

Content: Article | Authors: Anni Layne Rodgers, Robert Greene | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

Sixteen leaders in business, philanthropy, and social activism offer their reflections.

Content: Article | Authors: Christine Canabou, Lucy McCauley | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Peter Neupert, CEO of drugstore.com, offers advice for keeping your company on course and your employees calm, cool, and collected as dotcompetitors drop like flies and stock prices continue to slide.

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

Public-policy negotiator Susan Podziba, a teacher and a mediator-for-hire offers this two-part article on negotiation skills. Part I, gives nine tenets for negotiating success. Part II follows up with some thoughts on refining your skills.

Content: Article | Authors: Cecilia Rothenberger, Susan Podziba | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Negotiation

Competence precedes confidence.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

Optimism without grounded reality is a dream. Grounded reality without optimism is boring. People who are emotionally tough are always saying, “There’s got to be a way.” Business is not life-threatening; it’s ego-threatening. And the people who are willing to risk their ego are emotionally tough.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Hamm | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Risk Management

It’s in the headlines nearly every morning: the urge to merge. Each day heralds a new marriage between colossal companies – creating a merger- and-acquisition frenzy unrivaled in history.

Conventional wisdom explains these deals in terms of strategy, scale, and globalization – and stops there. We invited 10 influential thinkers and leaders to peel back the merger issue by answering three different questions: Will these … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Anna Muoio | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Most change programs inside of companies don’t work because they address content (the knowledge, structure, and data in a company) or process (the activities and behaviors), but they never address the context in which both of those elements reside. The source of people’s action isn’t what they know but how they perceive the world around them…Context can be an individual’s mind-set or the organizational culture. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Rayona Sharpnack is a teacher and a mentor to some of the most powerful women in some of the most important companies around. Her message: Don’t worry so much about what you need to know. Instead, figure out who you need to be.

Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business

Internet Capital Group has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in companies that are looking to make their mark in e-commerce. John Hamm evaluates and advises the entrepreneurs who run those companies. Here are the character traits that he looks for. Do you have what it takes?

Content: Article | Authors: Cheryl Dahle, John Hamm | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Professor Henry Mintzberg is one of the world’s most influential teachers of business strategy. Now he’s developing a new lesson plan: to change the very essence of business education itself.

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Reingold | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training

Bill Joos, vice president of business development for Garage.com, teaches entrepreneurs how to perfect their elevator pitches — a sales lesson anyone can apply in under a minute, or in fewer than three floors.

Content: Article | Author: John Hoult | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship

This April, the new economy suddenly entered a new phase: the Next Phase. Just when we’d all grown accustomed to dueling business models, high-flying IPOs, built-to-flip companies, and less-is-more balance sheets, the game changed. The Next Phase featured funerals for once-proud dotcoms, sputtering IPOs, and the rediscovery of the power of profitability. The question now is, what will it take to win in the Next … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Trends / Analysis

Donald Winkler is profoundly dyslexic. He is also a startlingly effective leader at one of the world’s biggest companies. The two are related. He sees the world in ways that we can’t or won’t. Read about his ideas on “breakthrough leadership” and his 10 principles for effective leadership.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, People

When change programs are doomed before they start … When old leaders are stumped by new challengers … When change itself is changing …

Content: Article | Author: Robert B. Reich | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior