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4 Strategies To Turn "Big" Into A Disadvantage

Whether you are writing your first business plan or have been in business for years struggling against a larger competitor, you can multiply your chances of success by stacking together strategies that turn your (small) size into a sizeable advantage.READ MORE

Are You Really Managing For Results?

Four out of 5 managers would say that they manage for results--but their people often have a different story to tell. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself to determine if you're managing for process or results. READ MORE

Dr. Leslie Saxon's Quest: iTunes For The Quantified Self

Feeling under the weather? In the future, you'll take out your smartphone--not to call your doctor, but to check your own vitals.READ MORE

Innovation Agents: Oscar Morales And One Million Voices Against FARC

Long before the Arab Spring, Oscar Morales was among the first people to use Facebook to mount a successful large-scale political activism effort.READ MORE

14 Amazing Questions For BuzzFeed's Ben Smith

Does long-form journalism have an audience even at BuzzFeed, the place where 33 animals are extremely disappointed in you? The site's editor, Ben Smith, has found that it does. Now, how about that BuzzFeed book?READ MORE

Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis

Since 1982, historian Robert Caro has been chronicling the life of the 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson. Fast Company recently spoke with Caro, who said that one of the best ways to understand leadership is to observe leaders “during their most intense struggles." READ MORE

Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis

Since 1982, historian Robert Caro has been chronicling the life of the 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson. Fast Company recently spoke with Caro, who said that one of the best ways to understand leadership is to observe leaders “during their most intense struggles." READ MORE

Free Stuff! Finally, A Deals Site That Doesn't Suck

More business-friendly than Groupon, and more respectful of user data than Facebook, Merchant Exchange is a one-stop shop for rewards programs. It'll save you money without creeping you out.READ MORE

Phil Fernandez And Marketo's Mission: Eliminate Cold Calling Forever

Meet Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and believer that cold calling should go the way of the dinosaur. READ MORE

Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age

Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away. READ MORE

How To Make The Most Of Your Too-Short Work Break

If you’re not the type who can sit on a park bench and contemplate nothing, and the conversation around the Keurig machine bores you, what can you do with 15 minutes that isn’t really work but pays off in productivity?READ MORE

How Great Entrepreneurs Lure Their Competitors' Sheep Away

About 2,000 years before Clayton Christensen coined “disruption,” a Chinese fable told of a clever peasant who lured a sheep away from a vigilant shepherd. This strategic tool has been used by history’s most significant companies and visionaries to beat tough competitors. READ MORE

GM Pulls Its Facebook Ads Three Days Before IPO

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.READ MORE

What Did You Just Agree To When You Downloaded That App?

Few of us read the contractual agreements for apps and software--we simply hit "yes." That's accepting a lot on faith. READ MORE

5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity

If your team spends its days asking for permission, taking hours to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant emails, you’ve got a problem.READ MORE

Predicting Summer Box Office Hits With Social Media And People, Algorithms Be Damned

Could Twitter have foreseen the tsunami that was the Avengers opening weekend? Fizziology uses social media to make predictions about box office success--and is doing as well or better as traditional industry predictions.READ MORE

14 Amazing Questions For BuzzFeed's Ben Smith

Does long-form journalism have an audience even at BuzzFeed, the place where 33 animals are extremely disappointed in you? The site's editor, Ben Smith, has found that it does. Now, how about that BuzzFeed book?READ MORE