Denis Wilson

Why Year-End Reviews Are A Big Fat Waste Of Time

The standard-model performance review is an unhelpful barrage of built-up criticism. Instead, give feedback consistently so that your employees hear the good with the bad and make improvement a matter of routine.

Why Year-End Reviews Are A Big Fat Waste Of Time

Mission Leadership: 4 Principles For Creating Corporate Commandos

Much of the post-Petraeus talk has centered on the crisis of leadership in the military’s top echelons. But on the ground, innovation doesn’t spring from “command and control,” but from mission leadership, something commando-turned-consultant Damian McKinney can teach you a thing or two about.

Mission Leadership: 4 Principles For Creating Corporate Commandos

Thick Skin Thinking: How To Use Negative Feedback To Your Advantage At Work

It goes against our nature to shout “Hooray!” when someone calls us out. But studies show that people who solicit and accept feedback are more effective leaders and more successful at work. Here’s how to take the sting out of feedback and make it work for you.

Thick Skin Thinking: How To Use Negative Feedback To Your Advantage At Work

Negotiate Like A Car Salesman: 5 Tactics To Help You Win Every Time

Whether you want a raise, different responsibilities, or more resources, knowing how to negotiate is vital. Here are 5 (non-sleazy, promise!) tricks straight from the car lot that will help you get what you want at work.

Negotiate Like A Car Salesman: 5 Tactics To Help You Win Every Time

The Business Turnaround Tactics Of Restaurant: Impossible’s Robert Irvine

In “Restaurant: Impossible,” chef Robert Irvine must turn around abominably bad restaurants (like an Italian joint-slash-petting zoo) in a matter of days. Despite tough-guy antics, he says compassion is key to the process. Here are his tips for doing triage on ailing organizations.

The Business Turnaround Tactics Of Restaurant: Impossible’s Robert Irvine

Pooch Power: What Dog-Friendly Workplaces Can Do For Your Business

Meet Louie, the slobbery, four-legged officemate who taught us a few things about how to work better.

Pooch Power: What Dog-Friendly Workplaces Can Do For Your Business

The Second City Way Of Better Brainstorming

Have you ever briefed your group on a topic and given the greenlight for freeform discussion, only to be met by blank stares and middle-of-the-road ideas? Second City Communications is here to help, with these six tips to quell people’s qualms about sharing ideas.

The Second City Way Of Better Brainstorming

Hip-Hop HR: Talent-Finding Tips From Shady Records’ Riggs Morales

As VP of artist and repertoire at Eminem and Paul Rosenberg’s Shady Records, it’s Riggs Morales’s job to find the next big thing in rap music. Fast Company recently spoke with the uber-prescient talent scout about what it takes to hire and hone stars.

Hip-Hop HR: Talent-Finding Tips From Shady Records’ Riggs Morales

With Guerrilla Networking, A Little Monkey Business Will Get You Noticed

The story of Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, a helicopter, and how thinking a little bit bigger about networking will get you a lot further.

With Guerrilla Networking, A Little Monkey Business Will Get You Noticed

Why Being A Meaner Boss Will Help Your Company–And Make Your Employees Happy

Looking to hone your management technique for a more productive workplace and more satisfied employees? Make “no more Mr. Nice Guy” your mantra.

Why Being A Meaner Boss Will Help Your Company–And Make Your Employees Happy

Impact

Microsoft is going carbon negative, will reduce more carbon than it has emitted in its history as a company

At a growing number of coffee shops, getting a coffee to go means checking out a cup

Climate change won’t result in a new normal but in constant, horrifying new disasters

Creativity

Here are the most hilariously scathing reviews for Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Doolittle’

How Nate Berkus has kept his creativity flowing for 25 years

Bloomberg haunted the Dem debate with fake irony on Twitter. Here’s how the other absent candidates fared.

Co.Design

Designers reimagine the iconic logos of Apple, Twitter, and more

Housing in SF is so bleak, this developer wants to build underground ‘sleeping pods’

Everything you think you know about minimalism is wrong

Work Life

We all spend too much time worrying, so try this calming trick

How to use these 7 presentation skills to nail a job interview

Entrepreneurs need to be aware of these three pitfalls