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There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side.
Read More »How to Pitch a Banker
There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side.
Read More »Can Too Much Information Harm Patients? [Excerpt]
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (Basic Books, 2012), by Eric Topol, a professor of innovative medicine and the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. [More]
Read More »To Be A Better Leader, Learn How To Referee Work Relationships
When you are able to put on the striped black-and-white referee shirt and mediate conflict, you've taken a large step toward becoming a more valuable leader.
Read More »6 Big Hidden Costs of Daily Deals
Daily deal programs provide a quick influx of cash--but what happens after that?
Read More »Nuance’s Voice Control TV, OLPC’s Tablet For Schoolkids, Netflix Debuts In U.K., PayPal Testing Mobile Payments At Home Depot
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Nuance Brings Voice Control To TV
Read More »Modern Life Coaching, From The 1400s
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship
Read More »Modern Life Coaching, From The 1400s
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship. In this work, Alberti also provided insightful commentary and life advice to scholars about marriage, choosing a profession, the state of education, and a number of other contemporary topics
Read More »Modern Life Coaching, From The 1400s
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship.
Read More »Attention Business Owners/Aspiring Authors: How To Have A Great Relationship With Your Publisher
Despite the recent surge in self-publishing, traditional publishers and small to mid-size publishing houses are still going to be around. Not every business owner can self-publish , nor does every one choose to
Read More »Blue Sprig: A Silicon Valley Startup … In China
Having a hard time finding a technical founder in the Bay Area? Do what tech veteran Jason Johnson did and go hunting in China.
Read More »Improve Sales by Boosting Collaboration
Keith Ferrazzi offers tips for getting your team to work together more quickly and effectively. Welcome back to part 2 of our 2 part interview series with Keith Ferrazzi–speaker, thought-leader and author of New York Times bestseller Never Eat Alone. (Here’s part 1: Networking Secrets for Sales Calls .) Today Keith’s letting us tap into some of his insights on how to make people more productive when they’re working together, and developing solutions together to the problems that we have, especially in the sales process.
Read More »Malcolm Gladwell Has No Idea Why "The Tipping Point" Was A Hit
As part of our Leadership Hall of Fame series, we continue our fresh look at The Tipping Point with an interview of author Malcolm Gladwell.
Read More »Doing Business in Europe? You Should be Hedging
There is one way to prepare for a Euro zone meltdown. If you do business overseas, it's time to consider hedging
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