As we try to make sense of the sorry state of American business leadership today, the real issue isn't, Where have the corporate heroes gone? The issue is, How do we know a corporate hero when we see one?READ»
As summer arrives, there's the hope that we can carve out a bit of time to read one or two books that may leave a mark after we've returned to the grind. I reached out to a diverse collection of thinkers, writers, and entrepreneurs and asked what non-business writing has had a big impact on them. They sent back an intriguing collection of fiction, science fiction, and history books.READ»
In May, Fortune published its annual "Fortune 500" issue devoted to America's largest corporations. It's full of reports on huge companies, billion-dollar legal battles, and supremely confident executives who talk a good game and ...READ»
Forget what you've always been told about how mentoring arrangements should work. Here's one woman's unsparing look at the pleasures and perils of the workplace's most complicated relationship.READ»
Forget what you've always been told about how mentoring arrangements should work. Here's one woman's unsparing look at the pleasures and perils of the workplace's most complicated relationship.READ»
Fast Company visits Houston, San Francisco, and Boston in search of female leaders with smart advice for tough times. Here, a dozen powerful women (and a few men) share their thoughts on leadership, crisis, and mentoring.READ»
We're hurt, angry, confused, sad. Where do we turn to make sense of what's happened -- and to move forward? To poets, songwriters, philosophers, and historical figures. Add your favorite quote here.READ»
Last week, Fast Company readers from as far away as Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore expressed their revulsion and offered their support. Read their thoughts and then add your own reflections and suggestions.READ»
From our first issue forward, Fast Company has tackled the ideas of reengineering, restructuring, and rethinking how business works. Here are some of our best stories about big-business change.READ»
Is the new world of work as open for women as it is for men? Yes and no. These Fast Company stories about gender relations show that the more things change, the more a few things stay the same.READ»
Put aside your workaday reading material and pick up something that stretches your mind, grips your imagination, or backfills the gaps in your literary repertoire. We have some wise suggestions for your summer book list.READ»
"What I do best is share my enthusiasm." -- Bill Gates
Missy Woodruff rarely said a word about the Coca-Cola Co. After all, as the niece of the late Robert Woodruff -- arguably the person most responsible for constructing this ...READ»
I never got to touch it, but I once saw Michael Korda's "power phone." It looked like a dainty little instrument perched all by its lonesome on a bare modern desk. What made it powerful, Korda insisted in his classic 1980s-era ...READ»
Adman extraordinaire Jay Chiat once proudly told me his secret for getting people to take his calls. "I call the person's secretary and say, 'Tell X it's his doctor, and I have the results of his tests.' X rushes to the phone; it ...READ»
During What we now consider the genteel 1990s, the meanest SOB I had ever met was Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today. His ego then was bigger than his newspaper, with which Gannett was blanketing the country at huge losses. At one ...READ»
Back in the fat days -- the happy mid-1990s -- Clifford Stoll, the bad-boy computer programmer, asked me, "What's going to happen to us when electricity is gone?" Short of the apocalypse, I wondered, how could that ever happen? I ...READ»
You want a story of CEO power? The kind of CEO who ends up with his picture on the cover of every business magazine and who gets celebrated for his strategic brilliance and financial performance? The kind of CEO who's never held ...READ»
There are people who proudly call themselves Eco-istas or Ecoheads. And no, they're not a new butterfly-defense league. They're the cult of Umberto Eco. For unexpected theories of leadership and power, he's their man. A brilliant ...READ»
Back in 1995, when we launched Fast Company, our most valuable asset was our originality. What was different about the magazine? Its message. Its language. Its design. Most important, its promise to readers. Nobody talked about ...READ»
"I've never seen a time like this," says Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and, for the past 20 years, one of the greatest architects of power in the country. Ailes has a gift: He knows what makes people stars. He's most ...READ»
