Topic: Tom Siebel

How to Manage Employees When They Make Mistakes

How to manage people through "light" and "heat" (think carrot & stick but I like my analogy better because we're humans not animals). As a leader you need to have both heat and light in your arsenal.READ»

Condoleezza Rice: Green Entrepreneur?

Say what you will about Condoleezza Rice--the woman is ambitious. Since the end of the Bush years, Condi has been working as a political science professor at Stanford, and now it looks like the former National Security Advisor is ...READ»

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Changes Thirty-six months, predicts Terminator director McG: By then, any content you want will be available on your choice of screens, from the one in your pocket to the 100-foot-long version at your local multiplex. That was one ...READ»

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Meth Mouth: Tom Siebel's Brash Anti-Crystal Campaign

Brash and obsessive, tech tycoon Tom Siebel believes that keeping teens off crystal meth is largely a matter of educating and scaring them. Could he be right?READ»

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Fast Company Magazine May 2009 Issue Online

This Month's Cover Story:Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business, by Mark Borden, page 54 How the director known as McG, a master of music videos and guilty-pleasure TV, became a ...READ»

Fast Company Library

Books previously featured in Fast Company (2001)READ»

360-Degree Customer Care

Thomas M. Siebel shares his principles for meeting the complex demands of customers who want to interact seamlessly with companies across various platforms. Learn to wow your customers on every front.READ»

Fast Company Book Reviews

Book reviews previously featured on fastcompany.com.READ»

After the Gold Rush

Looking for fresh ideas? The enormous Internet World show in Los Angeles has a few sparkling moments -- but mostly a churchlike stillness and a lot of worn-out hopes.READ»

The Responsibility to Retrain

In a Web Exclusive interview with Fast Company, RIT professor Ronil Hira considers the arguments for and against offshoring, as well as who is responsible for the American workers left behind.READ»

Vote of Confidence

The only thing the economy has to fear is fear itself: indecisive CEOs, risk-averse companies, frightened frontline executives. Take a journey into a different side of corporate America: people and companies that are playing with confidence and playing to win. Their experiences just might boost your confidence.READ»

Talent Bank

Thomas Weisel turned his former firm, Montgomery Securities, into an investment-banking powerhouse. Now he's building a new firm -- and gaining ground on some of the most established names on Wall Street.READ»

Jay Verkler

"Anyone can be independent with $10 million in the bank," says Jay Verkler. "To me the real question is: How do you know when things are right? Money doesn't have a lot to do with that. It's more about what you achieve through your life's energy."READ»

Kathryn Gould

Kathryn Gould's time at Oracle taught her two life-changing lessons: what it takes for companies to win, and the role she plays best in those victories.READ»

Oracle Intermission

In a sense, Bob Miner's memorial service was more of a reunion, a celebration of self-worth.READ»

Tom Siebel

Tom Siebel's incentive in business and life, he says, is to keep raising the bar.READ»

Money Changes Everything

Oracle makes software. It also makes millionaires. Meet four of them. They're all rich and they're all asking the same question: Now how do I succeed?READ»

Mike Seashols

Mike Seashols is someone who runs with the big dogs even as he struggles to maintain his personal center of gravity.READ»