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Distributing Idea Development

BY Heath Row
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Fast Company cofounding editor William Taylor penned a useful piece for Sunday's edition of the International Herald Tribune. Entitled "Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas," the article concentrates on the innovation practices of ...READ MORE›

Should We Stick Cows on Treadmills to Generate Electricity?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Energy-generating treadmills for humans? Been there, done that. William Taylor, a farmer in Northern Ireland, has decided to put idle cows on treadmills to produce power for his farm, according to Popular Science. The inclined belt ...READ MORE›

More Recommended Reading

BY Fast Company Staff
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Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win By William C. Taylor & Polly LaBarre William Morrow, October 2006 An excerpt from the new book by Fast Company's cofounder: When it comes to thriving in a ...READ MORE›

Customer, Serve Us

BY Heath Row
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Two recent articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal make an excellent parallel read. Yesterday, the Times, Fast Company founding editor William Taylor considered the sorry state of the customer service call center. ...READ MORE›

Zappos and Personal Branding

BY Wendy Marx
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I’ve written a lot here about the “hall of shamers,” companies that forget that customer service is their most powerful branding tool just as it is for personal branders. All of which made me all the more pleased when I ...READ MORE›

The Toughest Question in Business*

BY William Taylor
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*If You Answer Honestly Yesterday, I wrote about the power of originality in business -- and just how rare is it to discover companies, executives, and entrepreneurs with a truly distinctive take on their industry. Of course, few ...READ MORE›

Be the Priest, Build the Church

BY Chris Brogan
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When you make your own game, you have the opportunity to build a platform. What you DO with that platform is up to you.READ MORE›

What Surprising Number Will Change Your Business?

BY William Taylor
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Numbers are the universal language of business. We use them to attract investors for our startup ideas, to win approval for product introductions, to make the case for expanding into new markets or entering new categories. In other ...READ MORE›

Start the Revolution (Again!)

BY Michael A. Prospero
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With our November 2005 issue, Fast Company will celebrate 10 years of publication. Each month until then, we'll review our favorite editions from the first decade.READ MORE›

Start the Revolution (Again!)

BY Michael A. Prospero
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With our November 2005 issue, Fast Company will celebrate 10 years of publication. Each month until then, we'll review our favorite editions from the first decade.READ MORE›

Summer Reading Picks From Dan Pink, Seth Godin, Eliot Spitzer, and More

BY William Taylor
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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 MORE›

What Ideas Are You Fighting For?

BY Fast Company Staff
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Back in the early 1980s, when I was a student at Princeton University, one of my heroes was Pete Carril, the legendary (and now Hall of Fame) basketball coach. During his 29-year tenure, Carril’s Princeton Tigers regularly squared ...READ MORE›

Fast Company Book Reviews

BY Fast Company
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Book reviews previously featured on fastcompany.com.READ MORE›

The Biggest Mind-Flip in Business Today

BY William Taylor
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There is nothing more powerful in business than a truly original idea -- a distinctive point of view that redefines an industry, a breakthrough design that transforms a product category. In an era of hyper-competition and non-stop ...READ MORE›

Fast 50 Video

BY Fast Company
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Watch the Fast 50 Video Watch this two-minute video and find out how -- and why -- the Fast 50 began. Click on one of the following links to download the video in your preferred Web video format. Quicktime ...READ MORE›

Does Your Job Title Get the Job Done?

BY William Taylor
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The Economist recently took aim at the rampant inflation of job titles in companies and governments around the world. The winner was North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who has 1,200 official titles. It's hard not to laugh--but it's also possible to overlook the serious side of why it matters how people describe what they do and how organizations describe what gets done.READ MORE›

How I Downsized Myself

BY William Taylor
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After 22 weeks of dieting, I keep thinking back to a much-discussed article we published more than five years ago in Fast Company. Called "Change or Die." It was a bracing reminder of how hard it is for people to make deep-seated changes in their habits, even when they know the price of failure may be death.READ MORE›

By the Book Leadership

BY Fast Company
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Six leaders recommend the nonbusiness books that influenced them most.READ MORE›

Take The Maverick Challenge

BY William Taylor
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It's been great fun to serve as a guest-blogger on the Fast Company Web site, and to have a "virtual soapbox" for the ideas in our new book, Mavericks at Work. In the book, and over the course of this week, I've made the case as ...READ MORE›

The New York Times Is Dead Wrong

BY William Taylor
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Consider this amazing statistic: For the month of August, "The New York Times" ran 78 obituaries, but only six were of women. For 2010 as a whole, the Times has published 698 obituaries--and only 92 were of women.READ MORE›

Why Is it So Hard to Be Kind?

BY William Taylor
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Every so often, you have a small experience in business that teaches big lessons about what really separates winners from losers. I had one of those experiences a few weeks ago, involving my father and a Cadillac dealer.READ MORE›

If Your Company Went Out of Business, Would Anybody Notice?

BY William Taylor
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One of the truly jarring dimensions of the Great Recession is the death sentence it has imposed on of hundreds of brands, even whole companies, that were once familiar parts of the business landscape. The fact that "going out of business" has become such a growth business got me thinking about that question I heard years ago from advertising legend Roy Spence.READ MORE›

MIX It Up! Why Freedom Is a Bigger Game Than Power

BY William C. Taylor
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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 MORE›

Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand

BY William Taylor
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The most creative business leaders I know recognize that success is not just about marketing differently from other companies. It is also, and perhaps more importantly, about caring more than other companies--about customers, about colleagues, about how the organization conducts itself in a world with endless opportunities to cut corners and compromise on values.READ MORE›

Do You Pass the Leadership Test?

BY William Taylor
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The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action--an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign--even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.READ MORE›

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