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Noted public speaking coach Sims Wyeth offers 10 koan-like tips that will calm your nerves and leave your audience applauding. Your job as a business owner is 90% communication: You have to communicate the goals of your enterprise and rally your employees around them, and the most effective way to that is still the spoken word. Sims Wyeth, one of the best presentation coaches I know, says, “Public speaking is the number one tool of leadership because when you get people in a room to hear the same message at the same time, you have the greatest chance of moving them to action.” This isn’t something that software is likely to change

With the economic downturn, can companies still become great? We continue our examination of the business book Good to Great with an interview of author Jim Collins. What was the impetus for you to write Good to Great

To create customers loyal enough to stand in line for you, start by earning the loyalty of your employees. And there's only one way to do that. In a world where careers have become as portable as cell phones and BlackBerrys, ordinary loyalty is fast disappearing from the business landscape.

Plenty. When your connection to a mission or idea that is so strong that it inspires you to take risks, your company can soar, and your customers benefit.

Everyone thinks successful leaders always know what to say and the right course to take. They don't.

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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. [youtube SH-LEYKzXDg] Daredevil Jetman Yves Rossy flew recently his jet-powered wings in one of the most daring maneuvers yet: In tight formation with jet aircraft from the Breitling team

Magazine preview: China's first global brand is on the cusp of a critical transition. Which computer maker this year introduced three new tablets , a speedy new smartphone, an edgy new global branding campaign , and the launch of an outer space science competition with Google

In its press release today American Express revealed explicitly that its new $100 million Digital Commerce Investment Initiative was destined to fund "early stage startups to facilitate the company's digital transformation." If that sounds like a firm that's aware it's got to rapidly pivot, that's because that's exactly what's going on.

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The international wireless association that represents the wireless communications industry is officially recommending to employers to let workers "bring their own device to work." I put that in quotation marks because its actually the name of CTIA's formal campaign being pushed at this week's Enterprise & Application conference in San Diego. So, do you agree? Should employers let their workers use their personal smartphones and tablets for work

A New York City translation tech venture, Smartling , today released a host of new features and services to help users translate their websites, mobile, and other digital content into many languages, quickly, affordably, and accurately.