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In the 19th century, artists including Degas, Monet, and Renoir got together periodically to discuss their commissions, their patrons, and their industry. This circle met consistently, and the artists credited these small gatherings with not only making their careers but the rise of the impressionist movement.

Don't run like crazy just to stay in the same spot. Instead, stop, think, and focus. Four reasons why.

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

Bones have amazing electrical conductivity properties and, as one artist recently found out, can vibrate at the right frequencies to make a lovely macabre speaker set. Turned on its head, bone's response to physical stress can be used to produce music---or at least musical tones. That's what artist Boo Chapple discovered during the course of a year-long collaboration at the University of Western Australia's SymbioticA lab , the only research facility in the world devoted to providing access to wet labs to artists and artistically minded researchers.When Chapple began this project, she knew that extensive scientific literature suggested bone had what are known as piezoelectric properties

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

Building a stable team is critical to building success. Here's how to inspire morale and loyalty when you cant compensate competitively

Do you procrastinate on making decisions?

Web visitors dont want to hunt around your site to find what they need. Dont make them.

If you worry too much about being accepted, you won't be following your passion--and making a real difference.

Most small-company business development managers are newbies, even if they don't realize it. Here are six types of deals to stay away from

Measures like Price-Earnings Ratio and EBITDA multiples are just gross generalizations of the value of your business. Here's how to determine the real value. Estimating the value of your business is usually calculated through measures such as earnings, EBITDA, and “comp” multiples.

Futurists and smart thinkers weigh in on the technology that will change how you'll do business.

In the deep recesses of the ocean, there are bacteria that could be the key to creating a new, sustainable fuel source. Learning how these little bugs make their own energy might lead to cleaner fuel for the rest of us.

Profit and revenue tell you a lot--but they don't tell you everything about the health of your business. Every business focuses on and measures revenue

A crucial part of a start-up CEOs job is to build a team that lets him or her be just that: the CEO. The phrase ‘minimum viable product’ has become part of the start-up lexicon.