At the Social Sales Strategies Forum last week, one of the speakers referenced a writer who didn't seem to think much of this whole social selling thing. Although I cannot remember the exact quote ...
Fast Company wants you to have your best year yet in 2012; click for more advice and tips on how to work smarter, manage your career, and lead a more meaningful life.The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexi...
We give away time far more quickly than money -- but here's how to be a better steward of this scarce resource
If you want to keep your team jazzed about its work, start thinking like a video game designer. Of all the things that can get people deeply engaged in their work, the single most important is making progress — even if that progress is a seemingly sm...
Find the next superstar by seeking out these valuable traits.
Social media is an incredibly diverse field: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblrs, blogs, forums, Flickr, YouTube and literally hundreds of other apps, tools and networks, presided over by hundreds more gurus, ninjas, mavens, managers, engagement spe...
Getty Images Since each of us has had good and bad managers, it's tempting to wonder if there's a brain-based distinction between them. At times I've worked with managers so appallingly unfit for their role that its seemed like there just had to be ...
Contrary to popular belief: meetings are not the devil. We look at how to get more creative - and productive - with your weekly gatherings.
Whenever I speak at a company or conference, I always ask how many people consider great ideas to be important to the future of their business or career. Nearly every hand in the room goes up. I then ask how many people had set aside time in the past...
Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the "next big thing," before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don't even look very hard at the product or service, b...
It's only the middle of May, but already we've had some runaway viral hits in advertising this year. Unruly Media, which runs the global Viral Video Chart, has just released a list of the most-shared ads of 2012 (so far). We've posted the top 20 belo...
Guest Post While statistics are weak on startup success rates, the worst one I've seen suggests that 2 in 1,000 venture backed startups will ever achieve $100-million or more in valuation.
Asking employees to dream up innovative ideas on demand never works. Here's a much easier way to get them to be creative.
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This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. Fifty years ago today, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and announced, "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, ...
"It is what the sailor holding a tight course feels when the wind whips through her hair....It is what a painter feels when the colors on the canvas begin to set up a magnetic tension with each other, and a new thing, a living form, takes shape...." ...