459 Posts found for Source: Fast Company

You got the offer, now what? Questions every candidate should ask before signing on.

Content: Article | Author: Anne Lim O’Brien | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career

Billionaire Richard Branson has thrived by breaking the rules. Now he’s tackling his greatest challenge, setting his sights on the United States and a new airline. He’s testing himself and the limits of the Virgin brand.

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

Once upon a time, a business magazine wanted to understand the popularity of business fables.

Content: Article | Author: Ryan Underwood | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Miscellaneous

Management theorist and critic Henry Mintzberg has a few choice words for all you newly minted MBAs: The way you were taught management is all wrong.

Content: Article | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Source: Fast Company | Subject: MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training

There are two keys to innovation. The first is the ability to think beyond relatively conventional paradigms and to examine traditional constraints using nontraditional thinking. You have to be able to go outside your own frame of reference and find another way to look at a problem. The second key to innovation is the ability to discern the important issues and to keep your real … [ Read more ]

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

Amazon.com’s founder is a study in contradictions — analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. What really makes this remarkable entrepreneur tick?

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

Companies that are stuck in a rut look to Keith Yamashita to find out how to get back on track.

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Reingold | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People

When GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company’s famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls “Things Leaders Do.” In an interview with Fast Company, Immelt reveals his own leadership checklist.

Content: Article | Author: Jeff Immelt | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

John Mackey’s approach to management is equal parts Star Trek and 1970s flashback. It seems like a recipe for disaster, but at Whole Foods it’s a prescription for world-beating growth — and maybe for a world-changing company.

Content: Case Study | Author: Charles Fishman | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Grocery | Company: Whole Foods

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The Law of Leadership states that leadership is the exercise of power to execute responsibility. As an equation, Leadership = Power x Responsibility. Leaders with much power but little responsibility are narcissistic tyrants. Leaders with little power but much responsibility are impotent martyrs. Superior leaders have an equal balance and high degree of both qualities. The most important thing leaders can do is maximize their … [ Read more ]

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

Full-time MBA programs by their nature attract many of the wrong people–too impatient and analytical, with little experience in management itself. These may be fine traits for students, but they can be tragically ill-suited for managers.

Conventional MBA programs then compound the error by giving the wrong impression of management: that managers are important people disconnected from the daily work of making products and producing services; … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training

Every organization’s problems [can be viewed] through the lens of a system in balance. Purpose is at the center of a universe orbited by five components: strategy, culture, people and interaction, metrics and rewards, and structure and process. A company gets stuck when one component is off-kilter, or when the process and the system are misaligned.

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

GE CEO and successor to Jack Welch

see related article, “Things Leaders Do”
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

Give great feedback! Most people don’t. Here are four rules for making your input count.

Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

The job hunt is still basically done in the same way as it was done 30 years ago, despite all of the technological changes. For “Parachute”, I created a diagram called “Our Neanderthal Job-Hunting System.” It’s a large pyramid, segmented by different job-hunting techniques. Employers start at the bottom of that pyramid. They try to fill vacancies by looking internally and hiring from within. Only … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

There is a basic truth about what a human needs in order to survive; our culture seems unable to understand that. Human nature survives and has survived through the ages by being able to hold on tenaciously to two concepts: What is there about my life or world that has remained constant? and What is there about my life or world that has changed or … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Observations, Personality / Behavior

Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years–among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he’s asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? Here’s his eight-point plan for winning with ideas.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, People

By now, plenty were supposed to be in the corner offices. It’s not working out that way. In many fields, men still rule, while women often choose more nuanced paths that keep them from reaching the top. But who are the real winners?

Content: Article | Author: Linda Tischler | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development