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The best companies are those that can bounce back from failure. Here's what it takes to do it well.

The smaller your business, the more crucial it is to get every new hire right.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Facebook Planning May IPO?

He's got the experience and the know-how, but his advice is off the mark. How to handle a mentor you don't agree with.

It's time to ship out those W-2s and 1099s again. Yes, it feels like a waste of time and money, but pay attention: The IRS takes this very, very seriously

This simple, 3-step approach helps you sell against a cheaper competitor--without having to discount. This is an important column, maybe the most important ever I've published. It contains the key to keeping your company profitable and free from debilitating price wars

Our talk with danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She studied at Brown, MIT Media Lab, and UC Berkeley, and was named "High Priestess of the Internet" by the Financial Times

Believe it or not, at one point we actually fed our pets real food. That was, until people-food companies realized they could maximize their resources by mashing together all of their scrap meat, leftover grains, eggshells, and bones, injecting some vitamins, and cooking it up into “kibble.”

There's a new social media platform every minute, it seems, and the darling of the moment is Pinterest. Here are some expert tips from Chobani Yogurt's social media team on how to get beyond flavor of the week

As members of both the Senate and the House start falling back to a more defensible position by considering the removal of the DNS provision from SOPA and PIPA, many voices of opposition to the bills are claiming victory.

When it comes to being good corporate citizens, enlightened self-interest can and should carry they day. Learn how two remarkably different companies, Gibson Guitar and IBM, are doing good for their brands and their communities. At first glance, Nashville-based

How three college grads worked in a basement and lived off of ramen as they built "the best and brightest social media agency on the planet." [twistage 3322f1af891b4] Mike Germano met Chris Petescia in high school, and then Bobby Gaafar in college.

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists

The secret to successful selling? Don't sell right away. If you’re in a position to “sell” at your company (and no matter what you do for your company, you should be), then you know it’s not always easy to get the ear of the prospect you’re trying to sell to.

After years of seeing it all in job interviews, here is what separates a good candidate from a great one. In my career I have reviewed thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of employment interviews for both The Trademark Company and other businesses for which I have worked. In doing so, I got to see the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in terms of resumes, interviewing skills, and the like