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To give your employees real feedback requires observation, preparation and follow up. It starts with you

To give your employees real feedback requires observation, preparation and follow up. It starts with you.

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion. In looking back at the economy of 2012, we can safely say no one expected it to turn out the way it did. This year saw the development of many revolutionary new economic tools

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion.

In a tongue-in-cheek "review" of the year just started, your intrepid reporter follows 2011's economic trends to their absurd conclusion. In looking back at the economy of 2012, we can safely say no one expected it to turn out the way it did. This year saw the development of many revolutionary new economic tools

First generation iPad home screen My birthday comes a few weeks before the holidays. This year my wife got me an iPad

The new year means new opportunities to grow your business bigger, better and faster. Get started with these six resolutions. It’s that time of year , when we all step back and ponder on what was great about the year and what we coulda, woulda and shoulda done better.

As the year 2011 comes to a close, some might wonder what is looming sky-wise for 2012? What celestial events might we look forward to seeing?

Happy New Year! And welcome to the year of light…bulbs. Why you ask?

We wrote about a lot of machines in 2011. Here are the best of our future (dancing!) robot overlords. Robo Profs One of the most impressive, and perhaps most challenging developments in robotics (because it treads very close indeed to sensitivities about artificial people) is demonstrated by the Geminoid line--a group of highly advanced puppets that have been designed to replicate their human model right down to hair color, eye movements, and shrugs

Plastic surgeons are busier than ever at the end of the year as people cash in gift certificates.

As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here

Dave Lavinsky's company has helped its clients raise more than one billion dollars to help start, grow, and exit their businesses. Here's his advice

The results are in--and they arent pretty.

The results are in--and they arent pretty. Here are eight cautionary tales from some of the worlds biggest brands. Recently I gave a group of my MBA students at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business in New York this assignment: Identify the most questionable new products of the year and analyze what made them so ill conceived.