Topic: Carly Fiorina

Election Day

After pulling down millions in boardrooms, a number of former CEOs are spending gobs to get into government: Carly Fiorina from HP spent $5.5 million on the California Senate primary, Meg Whitman from eBay is making a $119 million ...READ»

November Events

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• Read: Decision Points
• Share: National Philanthropy Day
• Soar: Future of Air Transport Conference

Virality Bites: The Web's Most Unintentionally Hilarious Campaign Ads

In the age of YouTube, there's a huge potential downside for novice online politicos. Here's why going viral isn't necessarily a good move.READ»

America Reacts: Dem Ads Outperform GOP Ads on Economy and Jobs

We tested 8 campaign ads from 4 key election contests with more than 500 voters using technology to capture their moment-by-moment reactions. The ads were all about positions on the jobs and the economy, and the results were surprising.READ»

iFive: UN and Iran, Women Rock Primaries, Rockers Need Sleep, Le Goog Est Vendu--EVO Aussi, China Workers Revolting

While you were sleeping--and Meg and Carly were toasting their respective victories with something fizzy and intoxicating--the rest of the world was busy at work. Here's what's been going on overnight.1. It's sanction time at the ...READ»

Happy Birthday, Carly Fiorina

Happy Birthday, Carly Fiorina! We’d ask you what your birthday wish is, but you’ve already made it abundantly clear; you’ve got your eye on Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2010, and why not? You’ve certainly got the ...READ»

Why Should You Want To Be Led By Anyone?

In these difficult times, leadership has never been more important, and having leaders who are authentic and can capture the hearts and souls of their followers have never been more needed.Followers today are hard to find, except by leaders who excel at capturing people's hearts, minds and spirits. READ»

CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays

    Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. These six CEOs got fired because their risky moves ...READ»

• Why Incentives Are Effective, Irresistable, and Almost Certain to Backfire
• Incentive Clauses Gone Bad

Taking the Sting out of Queen Bees

It was nearly 30 years ago, but I remember it like yesterday. I was in my first job, as a lowly researcher on a prestigious BBC news program. It wasn't really the right job for me -- I was still trying to figure out what that was -- ...READ»

Women Executive Leadership

Today, it is no longer about the lack of a level playing field for women to successfully compete with men in the executive suite. It's really about women executives not shooting themselves in the foot due to a lack of ...READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

The Leading Edge - Obama, Clinton '08

Obama, Clinton ‘08 with Bill as Secretary of State Since I am not running for office, I respectfully exercise my right to change my mind or as I prefer to view it, have my opinion evolve. In a prior blog, “Why I switched to ...READ»

Another Brick in the Bridge

PowerUP aims to close the digital divide one classroom at a time.READ»

Winning the Career Tournament

To add additional context to Linda Tischler's feature story, Fast Company offers two edited transcripts of interviews with Professor Charles A. O'Reilly at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Catherine Hakim, a sociology ...READ»

Fast Company Polls

Make Your Voice HeardREAD»

Survival Tactic: Recognize Your Female Talent

The founders of Fine Line Consulting know why corporate America needs more women at the top. Here, they discuss the roadblocks to retaining and rewarding female talent -- and prescribe solutions for vaulting those barriers.READ»

Survival Tactic: Recognize Your Female Talent, Part Two

The founders of Fine Line Consulting know why corporate America needs more women at the top. Here, they discuss the roadblocks to retaining and rewarding female talent -- and prescribe solutions for vaulting those barriers.READ»

Streamlining HP

Sam Lucente's business is corporate design. Persuasion is his game.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»

The CEO's New Clothes

Forget autocrats and visionaries. Farsighted, tolerant, humane CEOs aren't just nice to work for. They deliver nice results, too.READ»

Office Handbook

Chapter 31: Personal HygieneREAD»

Into Thin Air

Maybe offshoring is good for the economy in the long run. Maybe it will boost productivity and save companies. But it's causing real pain to real people. And they never thought it would happen to them.READ»

Networking Overload

Meet "snam," the junk email generated by social networking.READ»

High Times

What to read on an airplane when you don't want to pay for $5 headphones to watch the latest Steve Guttenberg movie.READ»

Hidden Asset

Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years--among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he's asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? Here's his eight-point plan for winning with ideas.READ»