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A short list of high-value opportunities will keep you focused on what really matters.

A group of advisors can be extraordinarily useful. Tricks to make sure yours is

If your strategys off track, complete this four-step process to put your business back on a growth path.

If your strategys off track, complete this four-step process to put your business back on a growth path. Growing a company is complicated, so it’s often helpful to go back to the basics and get your management team to agree on the plan to grow the business

A dead or dying value model can take your company down with it. Here's how one company came back from the brink. We recently wrote about the " value model ," a framework for defining how four key elements of your business–employees, capabilities, customers and financial performance–interrelate in a way that creates or destroys business value.

A dead or dying value model can take your company down with it. Here's how one company came back from the brink

A dead or dying value model can take your company down with it. Here's how one company came back from the brink. We recently wrote about the " value model ," a framework for defining how four key elements of your business–employees, capabilities, customers and financial performance–interrelate in a way that creates or destroys business value

A dead or dying value model can take your company down with it. Here's how one company came back from the brink

We kick off our Leadership Hall of Fame , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Practically Radical , written by Fast Company magazine cofounder William C. Taylor .

We heard a lot of great questions at Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event in San Francisco this past November, but there just wasn't enough time for them all. We gave our attendees a chance to pose questions to the speakers post-event, and compiled a cross section of them below. The first question is for David Cush , President & CEO of Virgin America: Virgin America is clearly focused on surprising & delighting customers but has chosen not to have what is arguably a best practice--a more robust loyalty/frequent flier program.

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

Great businesses succeed by motivating people with the straight facts. There are four ways to get the truth out there.

If logic had anything to do with it, One Kings Lane , the online shop with daily deals on luxe home furnishings, wouldn’t have made it beyond a friendly conversation about the dearth of destinations to shop for décor between founders Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. In 2009, U.S. home prices were in free-fall and foreclosures hit record highs as delinquent loans piled up

These will be the five hardest slots for you (and any start-up) to fill in the new year. The year flew by mostly because it was a very, very busy one. Although the economy continues to face many challenges, the startup and tech industries are very much alive.

P&L targets are supposed to help a company create more value. But used incorrectly, they can erode business value and consume growth opportunities from the inside. We saw a business recently that was being “eaten” by its P&L targets