Job Hopping Among New College Grads
Soul Proprietor
What drives Troy Tylers grinding battle to keep his startup dream alive? Passion. Purpose. A hunger for revenge. In the midst of the Internet-driven startup boom, the saga of smartRay Network Inc. offers a powerful reminder of what real entrepreneurship is all about.
Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Unleash Your Ideavirus
Here’s a big idea: Ideas are driving the economy. Here’s a bigger idea: Ideas that spread fastest win
Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales
Value Propositions
Interview with Mercer Management Consulting’s David Bovet and Joseph Martha (authors of book titled ‘Value Nets: Breaking the Supply Chain to Unlock Hidden Profits’) elicited five value propositions that are reshaping the relationships between companies and their customers.
Content: Article | Author: Keith Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Customer Related, Management
Why Can’t We Get Anything Done?
Stanford B-school professor Jeffrey Pfeffer has a question: If we’re so smart, why can’t we get anything done? Here are 16 rules to help you make things happen in your organization.
Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management
Danger:Toxic Company
The problem isn’t that loyalty is dead or that careers are history. The real problem, argues Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer, is that so many companies are toxic — and that they get exactly what they deserve.
Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill
You can’t build a great company without great people. The problem: How do you know the great people when you see them? Rules for smart hiring from Nucor Steel, Silicon Graphics, and Southwest Airlines.
Content: Article | Author: Peter Carbonara | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Organizational Behavior
Free Agent Population
New Math for a New Economy
What’s wrong with the 500-year-old way in which all companies keep their books? Just about everything, says Baruch Lev, who has proposed a new method for determining the value of the intangible assets that are at the heart of the new economy.
Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Accounting
MBA Front Lines
Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America’s most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Learning for a Change
10 yrs ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the “learning organization.” In this interview he updates that idea focusing on obstacles to change and discusses the current “company as a machine” mentality and the more realistic “companies as living organisms” model. Other topics discussed include: initiate change by starting small; change through personal growth; definition of leadership; self-reinforcing factors and 10 “challenges … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Management
The Conference-Commando Field Manual
Don’t think of your next conference as a company-sponsored vacation. Think of it as an assault on the future. A collection of battle-scarred veterans offer their secrets on how to become a conference commando.
Content: Article | Author: Scott Kirsner | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Miscellaneous
How to Speed Up Your Startup
When it comes to launching Internet companies, you can’t be fast enough. Here are lessons in speed from a leading VC, the founder of an e-business incubator, and a team of anthropologists studying work and life in Silicon Valley.
Content: Article | Author: Katharine Mieszkowski | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Congratulations, You’re promoted (now what?)
The transition from team player to the leader can make-or break-your career. Here’s FC’s six-point leadership guide.
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership
First Things First – 4 Action Items
FC asked in-the-trenches leaders and experts on teamwork to identify the action items that should be at the top of any new leader’s To-Do list.
Content: Article | Author: Eric Matson | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership
Diaries of a Startup
CEOs, founders, and presidents of various startup companies share their thoughts, gripes, and advice in an effort to facilitate mind sharing and promote unfettered learning. We hope the fever is catching.
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Small Business
Field Guide for Change
You’ve come up with a radical plan that will transform the way your company does business. The next step: execute. But how? By reading, ripping, and leveraging Fast Company’s startup manual for leading change.
Content: Article | Authors: Bill Breen, Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Built to Flip
excellent discussion from author of Built to Last about new mentality toward building companies and the associated implications
Read follow-up article, “Built to Flip – Where Do You Come Down?”
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, General
Do You Have the Will to Lead?
Philosopher Peter Koestenbaum discusses some interesting concepts: reckoning with freedom, leadership as two vectors – competence and authenticity, ability to manage polarity, etc.
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Your Checklist for Glitch-Free Travel
follow this checklist to travel with the full knowledge that no matter what high-tech disaster befalls you
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: International, Travel