William Taylor

I'm a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, coauthor of the 2006 book Mavericks at Work, and author of the forthcoming (January 2011) book Practically Radical.

How The Seemingly Chaotic But Wildly Successful Fringe Festival Makes It Work

News Corp., Netflix, And The Value Of Values

How Do You Know A Great Person When You See One?

Great People Are Overrated (Part II)

Great People Are Overrated

How To Turn Anything From Adequate To Amazing

Hire Superstar Talent Fast

Too Much Entrepreneurship Is a Bad Thing

Which Companies Are Worth Admiring?

Great Ideas Call for Calculated Boldness

Are You Different on Purpose?

Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill

Find the Revolution Before It Finds You

Why Do Smart People Do Such Dumb Things?

Why You Should Reminisce About the Future

A Game Plan for Game Changers

Why Nobody Wins Unless Everybody Wins

Getting Smarter About Google’s “Brain Drain”

Money! Power! Fame! (And Other Ways to Fail)

New Business Models Are America’s Most Undervalued Export

Impact

Before Ikea and H&M can use recycled fabrics, they have to figure out what’s in them. (Answer: lots of poison)

Lyft is helping nonprofits get low-income workers to their job interviews and first weeks of their new jobs

This glowing map shows the most-biked streets in San Francisco

Creativity

You can now write spooky stories in Stephen King’s house, if you make the cut

Netflix misses its subscriber growth target—again. Welcome to the chaos era of streaming

Pulitzer Prize-winner Ronan Farrow does goofy voices in his dead-serious MeToo audiobook

Co.Design

The crucial lesson in the demise of Dyson’s electric car project

Swedish artists create 17,000 sculptures—one for each Afghan refugee facing deportation

The most important announcement Google didn’t mention at its keynote

Work Life

These are the challenges that blind people have in navigating the workplace

Exactly how to prepare for your first maternity leave

Discrimination in the hiring process is more prevalent than you might think