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

This fake leather is made from silk

This genetic tech could help save billions of baby chickens from unnecessary death

At its Silicon Valley outpost, Microsoft is putting the park in office park

News

How to track China’s Long March 5B rocket live as it crashes somewhere on planet Earth

President Biden has reinvented the art of the flip-flop—and that’s a good thing

Sorry, but today’s jobs report sucked. Here’s what you need to know

Co.Design

Planning a post-pandemic office? Here’s how much it will cost

Unpacking the CIA’s cringey recruiting strategy

Food52’s secret recipe for building a $100 million media empire

Work Life

The link between mental health and financial literacy for Gen Z

The one piece of data your company needs to track to improve diversity efforts

How to deal with anxiety about returning to “normal”