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Topic: Niccolo Machiavelli

  

Politically Proactive

Make things happen by mastering the game of day-to-day politics.READ MORE

Trump School of Business, Part Deux

Today, class, we will discuss the latest management technique postulated at the world's most cynical business school, NBC's "The Apprentice." The problem: How to get rid of an obnoxious co-worker. The solution: Put him in charge, ...READ MORE

Sales Leadership Excellence: How to Recruit & Retain More High-Producing Sales Leaders

As work becomes less about muscle and more about intellect, sales leadership styles need to change. Know what causes a worker to enjoy their work and motivate them to become high producing sales leaders...READ MORE

Could Service Innovation Help Lead America Out of the Financial Crisis?

Let’s face it: in these violently turbulent times, we all want to know what’s next. Kaihan Krippendorff, who currently consults for Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, and Wal-Mart, says service innovation will be an important ...READ MORE

Living Dangerously - Issue 32

"Here are the 10 Commandments of leadership that I carried down from the mountaintop."READ MORE

Five Laws of Conflict – Burning Korans Breaks them All

This Saturday, Florida-based pastor Terry Jones had planned to lead his congregation in a Koran burning, celebrating what they call "International Burn a Koran Day." Although everyone from the Pope to Hillary Clinton has urged him to halt his plans, it seems that only a sign from God can keep him from following through. And I can't decide if Terry is short-sighted or brilliant.READ MORE

A Close Encounter of the Enlightened Kind

Aspen Institute's Executive Seminar finds modern wisdom in classic works.READ MORE

Living Dangerously - Issue 41

"Who or what is killing the great women of the corporate world?"READ MORE

An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring

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 MORE

An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring

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 MORE

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What is -- and isn't -- on the Fast Company bookshelf.READ MORE

Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Innovation* But Were Afraid To Ask

This is way too long for a blog, but what the heck... “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”- Machiavelli (1469-1527) One of the ...READ MORE

Power Reading

Advertising exec Rosemarie Ryan shares her career core curriculum.READ MORE

Women on the Verge of a Power Breakthrough

Forget the glass ceiling. A war cry, a strategy manual, and an economic treatise equip today's woman to handle the capitalist tool.READ MORE

What’s Your Moment of Truth?

Quite a few years ago, Jan Carlzon wrote a book titled Moments of Truth. At the time, Calzon was the CEO of Scandinavian Airlines Systems and had helped the company reorient itself to become customer-driven. In his own words, a ...READ MORE

How Will You Fail?

In My Humble Opinion: Harriet Rubin on living dangerously.READ MORE

The Innovation of Tradition

In a New York Review of Books essay published earlier this month, Charles Rosen explores the role history and tradition play in innovation and creativity. In the piece, he considers short-sighted business strategies in the light of ...READ MORE

Karen Stephenson

Survival Skills for Tough Times Karen Stephenson President, NetForm International "The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity: We are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch ...READ MORE

Living Dangerously - Issue 34

"Girl-gang members are the new mistresses of misrule."READ MORE

How Do Leaders Deal With Loss?

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 MORE

Past Track to the Future

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 MORE

Living Dangerously - Issue 37

Can we develop an ability to have vision?READ MORE

A Monthly Column on Power

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 MORE

Living Dangerously - Issue 38

"Don't wait for a distant revolution -- reinvent everyday life here and now!"READ MORE

Living Dangerously - Issue 31

In My Humble Opinion: "We won't see great leaders until we see great women leaders. As role models, men are going flat."READ MORE