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5 Tips To Get Maximum ROI From Saying "Thanks"

You know it's important to say thank you. Here are some easy ways to express gratitude--and have it impact your bottom line.READ»

The Future Of Ethics In Branding

Ethics and advertising don’t go together too well--but that's all about to change. READ»

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Kevin Rose's Work Flow: How The Cofounder Of Digg Organizes From A Treadmill Desk

The founder of Milk has come a long way since his days as the "Dark Tipper" on Tech TV. As a well-known entrepreneur, Kevin Rose helped change the way we share news (Digg) and how we get tech video content online (Revision3). Today, ...READ»

Why Planned Parenthood Should Change Its Name

Renaming Planned Parenthood to reflect its true role as a giver of women's health care would be a hell of a powerful branding move, one that could relegate abortion to 3% of the conversation instead of 100%, and galvanize the mission of serving women and thereby men, family, and society. READ»

10 Moves From Pro Wrestling To Deliver Championship Presentations

My best training ground for the regular stream of client presentations, new business meetings, and conferences was an old wrestling ring at a fairgrounds in rural Kentucky. READ»

The Psychology Behind Movie Poster Designs

There's a lot more to movie poster design than meets the eye. Unlike most other marketed products, movies require immediate emotional impact while still maintaining a continuous push to each subsequent level of distribution. It's enough to make someone with a dual-major in psychology and graphic design wish they'd gone to law school.READ»

5 Reasons Best Practices Suck

Best practices are like vampires: They can suck an organization of productivity, drain its creativity, and bleed its initiative. If you seek perfection in perpetuity, your organization’s learning apparatus will become an animated corpse cursed through the ages to feed on its ancestors.READ»

YouTube And Shiva Rajaraman Bring Intelligent Channel Picks To Online Video

How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations? In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue, we chat with Shiva Rajaraman, Group Product Manager for YouTube.READ»

Like Peter Thiel's Fellows, Sebastian Thrun Dropped Out, Hacked Education, Too

What the former Stanford professor-turned-independent educator teaches us about the new online power dynamic.READ»

If Your Customers Are Poised For Revolt, It's Time For Extreme Trust

It used to be that a business could generate substantial profits by keeping its customers in the dark. But sooner or later practices like those will put your company in as much jeopardy as a Middle Eastern dictator. If you want to stay out of the line of fire, your best course of action is to protect the interests of your customer, proactively. READ»

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Career?

Five simple actions can be dangerous and detrimental to your success. Are you guilty as charged?READ»

Staying Competitive In A Customer-Centric World

It's a common misconception that knowledge is information when actually, it's the human capacity to take action facing uncertainty. In other words, when you face a problem, how quickly and efficiently can you find and use the knowledge you need to solve it?READ»

8 Reasons Your Social Initiative Will Fail

The social software market is booming as companies rush to deploy software that help workers share information and communicate with colleagues, customers, and suppliers. But it's tricker to implement than you might think. Here are 8 things you need to avoid to get it right the first time. READ»

4 Social Startups On Track For A Monster 2012

With one month down in 2012, it's a good thing we waited until February to put this out. One of the four sites below wasn't even on our radar until late last month. All four are heading in the right direction in a segment of the Internet that has most saying Facebook has muscled everyone else out.READ»

ManageWP Is The Unified Wordpress Dashboard We've Needed For Years

When it comes to managing multiple sites at once, most bloggers were limited in their choices--especially using Wordpress, which has been conspicuously obtuse when it comes to managing multiple blogs from a single platform. That's the gap that ManageWP fills.READ»

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Fast Talk: How This Bartender Is Rebooting The Condom

Meet Richard Pessall, a 20-year-old British entrepreneur who wants to take the condom where no man has gone before (no, not space).READ»

Vosges Unwraps Chocolate's Wild Side

Forget the Russell Stover this Valentine's Day--there's a delicious new world of innovative, artisanal chocolates out there. Katrina Markoff of luxury chocolate maker Vosges talks with Fast Company about the power of chocolate and her worldwide hunt for the perfect ingredients.READ»

Mentors Are Useless--But They Don't Have To Be

I am a lousy mentee. It’s a funny admission to make as someone who makes her living as professional mentor. Sure, I train my clients on how best to leverage my expertise. Of course, that doesn’t mean that I follow my own advice very well.READ»

Ford's Nancy Lee Gioia On Leading Where The Rubber Meets The Road

In her 30 years with Ford Motor Company, Nancy Lee Gioia’s learned a thing or two about teamwork, sparking innovation, and being a driving force in what was once considered a man's industry. READ»