Leadership

Drive a Mercedes with Your iPhone and Nine Other Mind-Blowing Stories This Week on Fast Company

BY Kate RockwoodFri Nov 20, 2009 at 6:45 PM

"Interferometric modulation," driving your Mercedes with an iPhone, driving your computer with your mind, Minute Maid's juicy new packaging, locavore Thanksgiving, a next-gen activity monitor to help you burn it off, and other great stories on Fast Company this week.READ»

COMMUNICATIONS | Comment

Blog FAIL: What was I thinking?!

BY Erica SalamidaFri Nov 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM

About four or five years ago, when everyone started launching corporate blogs, a lot of people (myself included) thought it was OK to just use it as a medium to post press releases, without a lot of context. Like the scrunchie, that ...READ»

CUSTOMER | 1 comment

Be social and the networking will follow.

BY Lynette ChiangFri Nov 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM

Oxymoron of the week: 'Let's incorporate social networking". Just look at that sentence!Incorporate. Social. Like saying, "Let's engineer some fun." I hear this sentence uttered a lot these days, in corridors, over ...READ»

GIVING THANKS | Comment

Giving Thanks

BY Roberta MatusonFri Nov 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM

This Thanksgiving, give your employees something to be thankful for.READ»

BLOGS | 4 comments

Leading in Social Media Monetization

BY Lena L. WestFri Nov 20, 2009 at 10:30 AM

There are not many people I sit around thinking about meeting. It's not that I have a super-elevated opinion of myself. It's more than I'm your average (or not so average) jaded New Yorker who has seen things and met some people. A lot of things and a lot of people.READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Chrome OS Is Still Not an Attack on Windows

BY Chris DannenThu Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM

Google's OS was sneak peeked today at the Googleplex. The Wall Street Journal digital called it a "direct challenge to Microsoft Windows." Really? Let's clear up some confusion once and for all: Putting the word "OS" after something ...READ»

PAUL VENABLES | 1 comment

How to Win Business

BY Paul VenablesThu Nov 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM

Paul Venables, 30 Second MBA faculty-member and ad man, on what makes a company succeed and how a leader instills success.READ»

JACKIE YEANEY | 1 comment

The Top Ten Meeting Personalities

BY Jackie YeaneyThu Nov 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Whether online, over the phone, or in person, keeping people engaged and productive during a meeting is always the goal. To that end, we've drafted a top 10 list of meeting "unique" personalities and tips for improving your interactions during meetings.READ»

30 SECOND MBA | Comment

Mike Rowe: How Do You Know Innovation When You See It?

BY Ellen McGirtThu Nov 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM

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MARKETING SHIFT | Comment

What CSI Can Teach Us About Shopper Behavior

BY Joel RubinsonWed Nov 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM

Great retailers know they must be in the rhythm of societal trends. We know how contemporary Apple stores, Abercrombie, Sephora's, and Coach stores feel. But I want to talk about plain old grocery shopping. Like a CSI episode, where ...READ»

CAREERS | Comment

The Big Pileup: Social Networking Sites

BY Tom MusbachWed Nov 18, 2009 at 3:30 PM

Metaphors abound in descriptions of social media sites today. They are "exploding," the "next big thing," the "new media revolution." Here's another that will be familiar to anybody who watches football: They're the center of a big ...READ»

TRENDWATCHING | Comment

Need motivation to change the status quo?

BY Brian ReichWed Nov 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM

Do we need more motivation to change the status quo than being told that the status quo isn't going to change?Trendwatching, one of the leading global trend firms, released its "10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010" today. Their ...READ»

CIVIC VENTURES | Comment

2009 Encore Opportunity Award Winners...Retirement, Redefined

BY Cali Yost Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM

There are four major work+life fit transitions that spark a fundamental rethinking of the way work fits into the rest of life: parenthood, illness, elder care, and retirement. Historically, our response to each of these reset ...READ»

MARKETING | Comment

How To Be Effective at Social Marketing

BY David LavendaWed Nov 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Everyone’s talking about the latest buzz-term de jour – “social marketing.” It started with blogging, then it spread to Facebook and LinkedIn, and now it’s Twitter… The idea goes something like this – create a ...READ»

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Raw Honesty as a Social Media Strategy (Part 2): Ford Motors

BY Gregory FerensteinWed Nov 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Are you thinking about waging your own social media campaign? I interviewed Scott Monty, social media guru at Ford, to see how others could learn from their popular ‘Fiesta’ experiment, which profiles 100 Ford Fiesta beta testers ...READ»

ASIAN PHILOSOPHY | Comment

Vistaprint Disrupts a Six-Century-Old Industry

BY Kaihan KrippendorffWed Nov 18, 2009 at 10:30 AM

To understand how Vistaprint has become the world’s leading provider of printing services to small businesses, you need a brief overview of the printing industry. People buy printing services because of price, convenience, and ...READ»

LAGGARDS AND LEADERS | 2 comments

Schools Cram for Tests, Not the Future: Study

BY Ben PaynterTue Nov 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Meant as a reality check on test-driven measures like No Child Left Behind, a new report examines how forward-looking states are when it comes to education. The result: We're all mostly, C and D students.READ»

ADVERTISING | Comment

Gigantic Prophylactic Serves as a Good Opportunity to Talk About S.E.X.

BY Dana SeversonTue Nov 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM

As a father of three Idea Heroes in the making, it’s troublesome to me that there is a lack of marketing around the topic of safe sex.READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Ted Turner on Visionary Leadership: How to See Over the Horizon

BY Seth KahanTue Nov 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM

Many leaders are described as "visionary" -- I'm always curious as to how they got that way. Is it something they're born with, or something we can we all learn? I had a chance to participate in a Silicon Flatirons Q&A with media mogul Ted Turner as we probed this question with Ted Turner.READ»

GETTING FUNDED | Comment

The Secret to Finding Venture Capital: Not "How" but "Where"

BY ChubbyBrainTue Nov 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM

A look at the Q3 2009 venture capital funding statistics compiled by ChubbyBrain offers a data-driven view of venture investment by geography, which may help entrepreneurs with another data point as they consider the age-old question of location, location, location.READ»