leadership skills

Reports From the Past

Follow-up discussions with Fast Company leaders.READ»

Shackleton's Way

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton never reached the South Pole. So why is he a legendary model for leadership in our age? Because sometimes, surviving the impossible is success enough.READ»

How the President Leads

Princeton professor Fred I. Greenstein has identified six qualities that play a big part in presidential job performance. Here's how leaders outside the political sphere can follow a chief-executive example.READ»

Four Power Plays

"The 48 Laws of Power" vs. Fast Company. May the most powerful leaders win.READ»

Knowing How to Grow: The Next Step for Bigstep.com

Bigstep.com founder Andrew Beebe handed over the reins of his young company to help it grow. Here are his five tips to step down gracefully -- without stepping out.READ»

Get Back in the Box

How constraints can free your team’s thinkingREAD»

• When There's a Clear Target, The Right Details Are Easier to Fin

Fast Talk: The Watchdog

Consumer advocate Stephanie Oppenheim, 45, taps a network of families across the country to test hundreds of toys each year, then produces a guide rating the best and the worst. "The false sense of security that parents have--that ...READ»

Soap Gets in Your Eyes

How our buying fever becomes bubblicious.READ»

Analysis of Paralysis

If your strategy doesn't help employees act, it's not a strategy.READ»

• There Are Competing Priorities in Every Business

The Seven Axioms of Yves

"Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design." "Design must be integrated throughout the organization. ...READ»

Can CEOs Cure Cancer?

Big Pharma execs may not know more about the disease than the rest of us, but a group of them are using their power to fight it.READ»

Leadership Is a Muscle

How is your attitude about your abilities affecting your success?READ»

First Look

Apples Are Square By Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas D. Kuczmarski Kaplan Publishing, July 2007 235 pp., $25 The Kuczmarskis, innovation consultants and teachers, profile 25 values-based leaders--mostly fresh faces--to ...READ»

Failure Doesn't Suck

Sir James Dyson on getting it right after 5,126 tries--and how to move air at 400 mph.READ»

Open Debate

Do leaders teach? Do teachers lead? Bill George and Teach for America's Wendy Kopp take to the blackboard.READ»

Fast Talk: Marathon Man

Medtronic's Stephen Oesterle gets patients to run 26 miles with him--to prove the power of optimism.READ»

Fast Talk: Brands On The Run

Atlantic Records president Julie Greenwald on what it takes to make brands out of bands.READ»

Reading List: The New Capitalists

Ordinary investors are holding more sway, write the authors of The New Capitalists.READ»

Coach For A Day

EA's NFL Head Coach video game offers a mixed message on the art of management.READ»

The Expert on Experts

An expert guide to expertise.READ»

Smart Strategies: Putting Ideas To Work

"There have been several great eras in strategy," says one consultant. "This is not one of them." Still, there are signs of a renewed appetite for new thoughts. To get a sense of the enduring power of a big idea, we look at five companies that are putting smart strategies into action.READ»

More Power to Them

For more than a year, we've all been on a national learning journey, a trip of discovery into the land of real leadership. It started with September 11. In the aftermath of that terrible tragedy, Americans found themselves asking a ...READ»

Close Calls

Would you quit if your company lied to you? Would you sell the company you founded for stability? Doing the 'right' thing is often subjective. Meet five people who share tough career choices they made - and how they made them.READ»

Freak Control

Channeling Blue Man Group's creative fire isn't easy--unless you're Jennie Willink. READ»

Taming the Alpha Exec

Ambition, self-confidence, even a little bloodlust--all can be part of a great biz leader. They can also wreak havoc on an organization. Now, for the executive from hell, help is on the way. READ»