See Me, Hear Me….
No, I'm not doing my version of The Who's Tommy. But over the last few weeks I've had a chance to do two Web-based events that are now available to the general public. I'd like to invite you to check...
View ArticleIt’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Believe
Adam Lashinsky’s new book Inside Apple offers lots of intriguing material about Steve Jobs and the strategic choices, design principles, and business tactics that created the most valuable company on...
View ArticleTo Win Big, It Helps To Be a Little “Nuts”
Here’s a simple question for all you students of business success and stock-market returns: What has been the best-performing stock in the United States since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987? If you...
View ArticleYour Company’s “Obituary” Can Shape Its Future
If you’ve spent any amount of time in executive retreats or leadership offsites, you’ve probably been asked to participate in a familiar evaluation of your career and impact. “Take twenty minutes,” a...
View ArticlePlease, Can We All Just Stop “Innovating”?
There’s something about the culture of business that tends toward excess—in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the “market” for new ideas and management techniques. The logic is always the...
View ArticlePractically Radical, Now in Paperback!
I am very excited to announce that the paperback edition of Practically Radical has just been released by my friends at William Morrow. I've updated all of the case-study material for the paperback...
View ArticleWhen Bad Service Is Good Business
It’s hard not to be surprised by what you read in the newspapers these days, but a recent report in the New York Times left me downright floored. Richard X. Bove, a high-profile securities analyst who...
View ArticleA Quick History of Fast Company
After a recent talk in Dallas, I sat down for a video interview and stepped into the Way Back Machine, to discuss the launch of Fast Company, the ideas for which the magazine stood (and still stands),...
View ArticleIt’s More Important to Be Kind than Clever
One of the more heart-warming stories to zoom around the Internet lately involves a young man, his dying grandmother, and a bowl of clam chowder from Panera Bread. It’s a little story that offers big...
View ArticleClever Ways to Be Kind
I’d like to say I was surprised by the wave of commentary triggered by my most recent post over at Harvard Business Review, but I had a feeling it would get a big reaction. In the essay, titled “It’s...
View ArticleJoin Me for a Webinar
This coming Thursday, as part of series of activities in support of Small Business Month, the folks at PNC Bank are hosting a one-hour Webinar with me. The target audience for the session is...
View ArticleSimple Ways to Change How We Change
I devote most of this blog to reckoning with the future of business and learning from organizations and leaders that are helping to invent the future. But I hope you’ll indulge just a bit of nostalgia...
View ArticlePlaying It Safe Is Riskier than You Think
There are all sorts of reasons why so many big organizations can be slow to make changes that everyone agrees need to be made. “Our current margins are too good, even though the business is being...
View ArticleSeriously…A Smile Is Always in Style
Last week, the front page of the New York Times carried an in-depth report on a “broad and transformative trend” in Russia. It had nothing to do with more democracy or less corruption. It had to do...
View ArticleThe Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”
One of the most ubiquitous aphorisms in business is that the best leaders understand the need to "walk the talk"—that is, their behavior and day-to-day actions have to match the aspirations they have...
View ArticleGreat Leaders Are Insatiable Learners
In these head-spinning times, the challenge for leaders is not to out-hustle, out-muscle, or out-maneuver the competition. It is to out-think the competition in ways big and small, to develop a unique...
View Article“What Customers Crave Is a Sense of Humanity”
Fun interview with yours truly at Time.com. You can read it here.
View ArticleWhy Kindness Is Good Business
Bill Taylor, founding editor of Fast Company, shares how a small act of kindness left a lasting impression.
View ArticleFix Their Problem, Win the Deal
Bill Taylor, founding editor of Fast Company, shares an important lesson for aspiring entrepreneurs: your proposal won’t win or lose strictly on the merits of your idea; it has to solve a problem for...
View ArticleWhy You Should Read Your Memo Out Loud
Bill Taylor, founding editor of Fast Company, offers tips for making your writing more memorable.
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