Made to Stick: Why Companies Should Pave the Way to Praise
Why do companies make it so hard to say thank you to the right people?
Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Customer Related
The Business of Barbecue
The Business of Golf
Vinton Cerf
People often take the view that standardization is the enemy of creativity. But I think that standards help make creativity possible – by allowing for the establishment of an infrastructure, which then leads to enormous entrepreneurialism, creativity, and competitiveness.
When it comes to innovation, the question is not how to innovate but how to invite ideas. How do you invite your brain to encounter thoughts that … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Vinton Cerf | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation
Faith Ringgold
The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we’re fearful, we freeze up — like a nine-year-old who won’t draw pictures, for fear that everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks.
Content: Quotation | Author: Faith Ringgold | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Creativity
Jeffrey Pfeffer
If companies genuinely want to move from knowing to doing, they need to build a forgiveness framework – a tolerance for error and failure — into their culture. A company that wants you to come up with a smart idea, implement that idea quickly, and learn in the process has to be willing to cut you some slack.
Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure
The Power of the Prize
Lo and behold, contests actually work to spur innovation. So should we use them for everything?
Content: Article | Author: Anya Kamenetz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Innovation, Management
Heroic Checklist
Why you should learn to love checking boxes.
Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
David Roberts
The uncomfortable fact for many green marketers–and targets of that marketing–is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: “You don’t really need this.”
Content: Quotation | Author: David Roberts | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Social Responsibility (ESG)
FC Expert Blogs: Shawn Graham
Shawn Graham, an Associate Director with the MBA Career Management Center at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, offers useful career insights in this blog hosted by Fast Company.
Content: Career Information | Author: Shawn Graham | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career Info
Worldwide Stent Market
Is the Tipping Point Toast?
Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they’re wasting their money.
Content: Article | Authors: Clive Thompson, Duncan J. Watts | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Marketing / Sales
Generation *##@**##@!!
A new book on workplace tensions among four generations — veterans, boomers, Xers, and nexters — explains why it’s so difficult for all of us to get along. So do you have a problem with that?
Content: Related Content | Author: Katharine Mieszkowski | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Demographics, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior
Leadership Is a Muscle
How is your attitude about your abilities affecting your success?
Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership
Give ’em Something to Talk About
Your product may be good, but will it spark a conversation?
Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Marketing / Sales
The Myth About Creation Myths
Tales of groundbreaking innovation sound a lot alike. Like action-adventure movies, they have a predictable structure. Some ordinary guys, without money or power, triumph via a brilliant insight and scrappy groundwork. But what if those stories mislead us about what it takes to generate great ideas?
Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Clayton Christensen
The way we’ve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it’s too late. The only way you can look into the future is with theory. And that’s a big leap for managers to take.
The key to good theory is good categorization–understanding the circumstances you’re in, and the circumstances you’re not in.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Decision Making, Problems / Solutions
Unknown
Benchmarking is very popular today — but companies benchmark the wrong thing. They benchmark what other companies do, when they should be benchmarking how those companies think.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
Vinton Cerf
People often take the view that standardization is the enemy of creativity. But I think that standards help make creativity possible — by allowing for the establishment of an infrastructure, which then leads to enormous entrepreneurialism, creativity, and competitiveness.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation
Vinton Cerf
When it comes to innovation, the question is not how to innovate but how to invite ideas. How do you invite your brain to encounter thoughts that you might not otherwise encounter? Creative people let their minds wander, and they mix ideas freely. Innovation often comes from unexpected juxtapositions, from connecting subjects that aren’t necessarily related.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Innovation