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What can a Kleiner Perkins VC pitch, and Hamburger Helper from General Mills, tell you about how to make your ideas tangible and real? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Made to Stick (2007) by Fast Company columnists Dan and Chip Heath .

Much is made these days about the "pace of innovation." Everything is moving faster. Supposedly.

If you aren't learning enough from the conferences you attend, you're probably making the same mistake everyone else does. Don't. Business conferences often have more choirs than a church

Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m.

Got great ideas? Channel your inner Seth Godin and start spreading them around

Most startups are not well led--that's the nature of most new business ventures, everyone is learning as they go along. But there are some common best practices to keep in mind, which I describe in this week's episode.

Everyone has ideas; it's how you execute them that will get you noticed. Adopting these five principles will help. Would you like to be seen as a groundbreaker and a visionary?

Everyone has ideas; it's how you execute them that will get you noticed. Adopting these five principles will help

Welcome to another edition of Starred , where we take you deep inside the inboxes of our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, and VCs.

Pat Button , a former registered nurse and bed-and-breakfast proprietress, took a non-traditional route to transforming health care as chief nursing officer of Zynx Health . After climbing the corporate ladder at electronic medical-records company

Each candidate has his or her own strategy; some work, others fail. Here's what you can learn from the social media accounts of the 2012 presidential candidates.

Many physicists are great at figuring out how the world works, but less adept at describing those workings to a nontechnical audience. Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist at Columbia University, is an exception to that stereotype

Many physicists are great at figuring out how the world works, but less adept at describing those workings to a nontechnical audience. Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist at Columbia University, is an exception to that stereotype.

As Meg Whitman joins Zaarly, an e-commerce start-up, the company's CEO offers advice on finding your company's next advisor, and why you might want to consider a boldfaced name. Bo Fishback believes that Zaarly , the e-commerce start-up he co-founded six months ago, can change the world. But he knows he will need help building it

Imagine going to work on a Monday, only to find that everything in your work environment changed overnight. The corporate reception area is gone, along with the receptionist, who could barely be bothered to acknowledge the likes of you, anyway