Shawn Parr

Shawn Parr is the Guvner & CEO of Bulldog Drummond, an innovation and design consultancy headquartered in San Diego whose clients and partners have included Starbucks, Diageo, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, Adidas, MTV, Nestle, Pinkberry, American Eagle Outfitters, Ideo, Sony, Virgin, Disney, Nike, Mattel, Heineken, Annie’s Homegrown, Kashi, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, The Honest Kitchen, and World Vision. Follow the conversation at @BULLDOGDRUMMOND.

How To Build A Courageous Company Culture

Building a strong company culture takes hard work and true commitment. Here are some basic building blocks that can help.

How To Build A Courageous Company Culture

10 Steps Towards A Better, More Productive You In 2015

Will you simply go through 2015, or will you grow as a person and a leader in the new year?

10 Steps Towards A Better, More Productive You In 2015

What FEED Can Teach Companies About Making Meaningful Connections

Three lessons on engaging communities for brands that want to make a difference.

What FEED Can Teach Companies About Making Meaningful Connections

Why Your Business Should Put Values Before Greed

Help your employees discover their purpose and you’ll see a significant improvement to their level of engagement and overall performance.

Why Your Business Should Put Values Before Greed

5 Questions You Must Be Able To Answer About Your Business

Can you answer these five questions successfully? If not, it’s time to rethink your business’s strategy.

5 Questions You Must Be Able To Answer About Your Business

How Zippo Has Reignited Its Fan Base With Personal Branding And On Social Media

Iconic American lighter Zippo has brand recognition most companies envy. Now, it’s sparked a Twitter campaign to connect its customers.

How To Adopt A Startup Mentality, Even If You’re A Multibillion-Dollar Corporation

Take an honest look at how your company functions internally. Even if you bring home billions, it may be time for a change.

How To Adopt A Startup Mentality, Even If You’re A Multibillion-Dollar Corporation

11.22.13 | 5:58 am

Are Your Employees Connected To A Common Good?

They should be. A new study reveals the value in unifying around goodness.

Are Your Employees Connected To A Common Good?

Farming New Innovations And Ideas For The Food Industry Revolution

Food is a $3 trillion business worldwide, but has evolved very slowly compared to industries like medicine, communication, and transportation. That’s about to change.

Farming New Innovations And Ideas For The Food Industry Revolution

11.06.13 | 5:52 am

What A Dead iPhone Battery Taught Me About The Power And Pleasure Of Being Alone

Hungry, tired, and without a working phone, the author took himself out to dinner–and remembered seven simple, meaningful lessons for leading a better life.

What A Dead iPhone Battery Taught Me About The Power And Pleasure Of Being Alone

10.14.13 | 6:28 am

How To Build A Brand That People Don’t Buy, They Join

Apolis translates to “global citizen” in Greek. That’s the inspiration behind this socially motivated lifestyle company empowering communities around the world.

What Every Executive Can Learn From A Real Cowboy

It’s much more than what size hat to wear and how to walk cool.

What Every Executive Can Learn From A Real Cowboy

09.26.13 | 6:50 am

5 Smart Steps To Building Your Brand The Right Way

Would you be proud to wear your company’s identity on a T-shirt?

Navy SEAL Lessons For Operating Successfully As A Team

Every person counts. And four other important rules to work by.

Navy SEAL Lessons For Operating Successfully As A Team

7 Tough Leadership Lessons From A Navy SEAL Commander

Taking tactics from the war room to the boardroom.

7 Tough Leadership Lessons From A Navy SEAL Commander

You Don’t Have To Be Organic To Keep It Real

But it sure does help. Enter the story of hunter-entrepreneur Matt Rimel.

You Don’t Have To Be Organic To Keep It Real

Why Service Is The Final Frontier For Differentiation

These days, great service is a rarity rather than the norm. Why?

Why Service Is The Final Frontier For Differentiation

Are You An IDIOT?

It’s not what you think. Read on to find out if you are one–and what to do about it. (Hint: Don’t text from the bathroom.)

Are You An IDIOT?

What Would You Do With 12 Million Twitter Interactions In A Single Day?

Azita Ardakani is the 27-year-old social genius behind the global clean-water campaign “Summit on the Summit.” Fast Company contributor Shawn Parr spoke with her recently and learned important lessons for telling a compelling brand story.

What Would You Do With 12 Million Twitter Interactions In A Single Day?

Divide And Conquer: A Tale Of Two Startup Founders, Two Cities, And One Great Idea

One owner of the Sneakz Organic food company lives in San Diego. The other is in Boulder. But 830 miles is nothing when passion is driving your breakthrough product.

Divide And Conquer: A Tale Of Two Startup Founders, Two Cities, And One Great Idea

Impact

To fix the climate, we have to fix our soil

High CO2 levels will wreck plants’ nutritional value, so don’t plan on surviving on vegetables

This mobile cinema is helping women in Pakistan learn their rights

Creativity

That tone-deaf Ancestry ad was playing on Canadian emotions about Americans

Netflix is opening a production hub in NYC

HBO rebukes Trump for tweeting a Game of Thrones meme

Co.Design

The real reason why luxury fashion brands love the art world

Furniture made out of old jeans is way more beautiful than it sounds

This folding chair is more structurally complex than some buildings

Work Life

Running a business helped me recover from burnout. Here’s how

Five things every cover letter needs and one thing to delete

5 surprising lessons I learned when I stopped using social media for a month