Faith Ringgold
The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we’re fearful, we freeze up. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Creativity
Bruce M. Hubby
…you don’t need to know a lot about people’s weaknesses. But you need to know about their strengths. Trying to correct someone’s weaknesses can be a demotivator. People gain confidence when you build on their strengths.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Motivation
Howard Anderson
Innovation isn’t the key to economic growth. Management is the key to economic growth. Companies that rely too heavily on creativity flame out. In many ways, execution is more important.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Execution, Innovation
Thomas Davenport
All big ideas share at least one of three business objectives: improved efficiency, greater effectiveness, or innovations in products or processes. In a way, it’s an exhaustive set of possibilities. You do things right, you do the right thing, or you do something new.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Business Rules, Management
Charles H. Ferguson
Anyone who tends toward arrogance should be sentenced to a term of VC fund-raising during a tight market.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Marshall Goldsmith
The great Western Disease lies in the phrase, “I will be happy when…”
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Wisdom
Digital Video Statistics
Doug Sundheim
Contrary to popular belief, your decisions don’t drive your long term success – your decisiveness does. Said another way, when you reach a crossroads on any issue, the act of choosing creates power, not the choice itself. The issue is momentum. No matter what you choose, when you commit boldly with conviction, you create momentum. When you hesitate you don’t. And success is built on … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Decision Making, Power / Authority
James Montier
So far, the single most important discovery in happiness research is the idea of hedonic adaptation. Put simply, we take things for granted after a while. Experiences are so much harder to get used to because they are unique events. When you buy a car, for a few months you cherish it, but within a year you’re totally used to it.
The more you can do … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personality / Behavior
Lorraine Monroe
Leaders are lonely, because they must think and dream about their work — all day, every day, day after day. Then they must make what they think and dream about understandable to people who haven’t thought and dreamed as deeply, or as far into the future, as they have. They must believe in the dream and in the need to pursue it, and they must … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership
Lorraine Monroe
There’s a latent productivity in people; they’re just waiting for someone to remind them of their capacity.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips
Digital Records in US Healthcare System
Rob McGovern, Alison Overholt
One way to approach lifelong learning is to think about what’s threatening your job or your company. Go find out about the thing that threatens you. Understand it. You might pick the wrong company, but what you will learn will always be valuable.
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Learning
Vending Machine Industry – Japan vs. U.S.
Where in the world movies are made
The 10 Faces of Innovation
In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving–and the devil’s advocate at bay.
Content: Article | Authors: Jonathan Littman, Tom Kelley | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Innovation
Aaron Oppenheimer
In the past, adding features usually meant adding costs. Put a sound system or power windows into a car, and you’ve upped the price, so you better make sure consumers really want what you’re peddling. But in the digital world, that cost-benefit calculus has gone awry…Technology is this huge blessing because we can do anything with it, and this huge curse because we can do … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, Marketing / Sales
Bob Nardelli
He’s a by-the-numbers GE vet–but he has turned massive, unwieldy Home Depot into an innovation machine.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Jennifer Reingold | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management
The Three Ways of Great Leaders
In a new study, Harvard Business School professors Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria identify the attributes of great leadership — and nominate the best bosses of the 20th century.
Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership
Of Proteges and Pitfalls
A complete plan for getting the mentoring you need.
Content: Article | Authors: Margaret Heffernan, Saj-nicole Joni | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career