Friday's here, and with it, Fast's top five picks of what's been going on overnight, whilst you were snuffling into your pillows and dreaming of unicorns.
1. Operation Top Kill. It was on, then off, and now it's on again. Obama is ...READ»
Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.READ»
Venture Capital is a term oft-bandied about, but sometimes it's a mysterious process. Speaking at Stanford University, Beth Seidenberg of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers tried to clear up a aspect: Whether a startup is ...READ»
President Bill Clinton was never the retiring kind. Post-White House, he has attended many elite meetups -- and started his own. The fifth annual CGI meeting will be September 22 -- 25 in New York. We ranked it, for prestige and publicity, with three other stops on his circuit.READ»
Washington, D.C.'s public school system has 45,000 students and an abysmal dropout rate of about 50%, typical of large cities. With a goal to remedy this dropout "catastrophe" (Gen. Colin Powell's term), while being constrained by a ...READ»
Influencers come in all different shapes and sizes. There are cultural influencers, political influencers, and even those kids who often exert decision-making powers in their household.READ»
Cara Schatz wants to make one thing clear: Members of the SLA are, in
fact, special. "They work at huge companies, like McDonald's and
General Electric, and they inform C-suite decisions," says Schatz, a
conference ...READ»
2008 Communication SuccessesWelcome to my 3rd Annual Fast Company Expert Blog on Communication Successes. As with the faux pas blog that went up last week, successes were dominated by politics. In fact, I couldn’t come up with any ...READ»
In my recently-published book, Say It Like Obama: the Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision (McGraw Hill, 2008 - www.sayitlikeobama.com), I highlight the many communication practices that have enabled Senator Barack Obama to ...READ»
If you like your political news (and bile filled commentary) in easy to digest, 140 character long chunks, then you are living in the best of times. Twitter, the micro-blogging site previously best known by techno-narcissists, has ...READ»
We've all felt it from time to time -- the anticipation of getting an autograph from a childhood hero, the nervous energy before making a sales call with the major industry player, the one-of-a-kind rush and paralysis that comes from ...READ»
"General Powell, I understand that your wife once suffered from depression, had to take medicine, and was even in a mental hospital. Do you want to comment on that?"
The 8,000-strong audience filling the Dallas Civic Auditorium was ...READ»
Bill James is a really, really smart guy . . . who most people have never even heard of. And if you watch the video on him titled 'Baseball's Stat Man' (that broadcasted on 60 Minutes last Sunday), there may be some serious nuggets ...READ»
In advance of his RealTime Philadelphia keynote presentation, the elder son of America's greatest civil-rights leader offers provocative ideas on how to combine economic growth, digital innovation, and a commitment to social justice.READ»
Stephen E. Ambrose has written best-selling histories of great feats of leadership and human endeavor. His insights from the past can teach a new generation of business leaders how to build for the future.READ»
