I'd like to thank FC Now guest host Tom Kelley for his contributions to the blog last week. I've collected all of his entries in a dedicated category so you can quickly and easily access his posts, and FC Now readers are continuing ...READ»
During my week as guest host here at FC Now, I've tried to amplify, explain, or improvise on the Ten Faces of Innovation from my new book that appears in the current issue of Fast Company. Those posts were mixed in with the prolific ...READ»
If you're a Set Designer at heart, you probably have people tell you that office space doesn't really matter. "People can work anywhere," they'll tell you. "Just give them a desk and a comfortable chair." Those skeptics a haven't ...READ»
Inspired by Pine and Gilmore's ground-breaking book, The Experience Economy, great companies have gotten into the experience business in a big way. Ask loyal cutomers about the "Starbucks experience," the "Lexus experience" or the ...READ»
Hollywood film industry veterans will sometimes tell you that “directing is 90% casting.” The secret of being a great Director is fielding a team of talented people who don't really need much coaching to deliver a solid ...READ»
Golf has always been considered the ultimate business-oriented game, with plenty of opportunity to talk shop on the course and afterwards at the 19th hole. If you're a Collaborator and want to form a real bond, however, maybe it's ...READ»
I had the fun-but-scary experience recently of being on a live radio show at KQED, the local NPR affiliate, taking random calls from listeners in San Francisco. One call-in question essentially asked "Isn't some of this innovation ...READ»
Want more innovation inside your organization? I think the secret is to start searching more OUTSIDE. Because no matter how big or successful your company is, there are always more ideas outside than in. For that matter, with 193 ...READ»
Regular amazon.com customers may have visited that site hundreds of times without ever noticing one small statistic buried among esoteric data like a book's dimensions or its ISBN. The magic number I'm refering to is called the ...READ»
Look beneath the surface of many great business successes, and you're likely to find a trail of failures that preceded them. Describing the painstaking trial-and-error process that led eventually to the creation of the incandescent ...READ»
Hi. Guest host Tom Kelley, just checking in. A Fast Company fan ever since Alan and Bill put the first issue together ten years ago, I’ve read the magazine through thick [literally] and thin, attended memorable Real Time live ...READ»
Next week, contributors to FC Now will be joined by Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO and author of The 10 Faces of Innovation. As guest host, Kelley will expand on the ideas behind the book, share stories about his experience at ...READ»
