Innovation

According to Richard Pascale, if you want your company to stay alive, then try running it like a living organism. The first rule of life is also the first rule of business: Adapt or die.

Coming up with good ideas -- even in an ideal environment -- is hard work. But these tactics will guarantee failure.

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.

Generating rafts of good ideas is Ideo's business. Here's how this world-class product-development firm keeps the lightbulbs blazing bright.

Thanks to the carnage of the past 10 months, we have a pretty good idea of which business strategies don't work on the Web. But what does work?

The lessons learned during Odwalla's 1996 E. coli crisis have guided the juice company to financial recovery and explosive growth.

The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy.

Forget about costume jewelry and vegetable peelers. Today's QVC is a $3.5 billion retailing juggernaut whose strategies for the future are worth their weight in gold.

Think of a product that is so local, it could never go global. So basic, it could never be branded. So fundamental, it could never be reinvented. Now think about bread -- Lionel Poilane's bread, that is.

Think customer service is dead? Read this heartwarming tale of a man, a lost luggage tag, and some fabulous brownies.