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If your team spends its days asking for permission before executing, taking an hour to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant emails, you’ve got a problem. Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on--but they can quickly get out of control.
Read More »What to Do if You’re Failing
Start-up founders tend to say everything's great, all the time. So what happens when that's not even close to true
Read More »Find Growth Beyond Profits
New Orleans chef John Besh has found the secret to success: Give back.
Read More »Facebook Share Pricing Rumors Hint At High Demand, $100 Billion Valuation [Updated]
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. Facebook's share price will likely be in the $34 to $38 range, according to sources speaking to AllThingsD , which puts its valuation near the long-rumored $100 billion range. That value will likely be boosted because it also seems likely the company's underwriters will agree to issue around 50 million additional shares to meet keen investor demand
Read More »3 Ways Facebook Changed the IPO Roadshow
Facebook's tour to meet with investors before its initial public offering was like no other IPO roadshow.
Read More »Modify Watch’s Low-Tech Business Takeaways From High-Tech Startups
West Coast business schools are entrepreneurial breeding grounds, but not just for the next hot thing in tech--here's what mix-and-match watch company Modify learned during its launch. I graduated from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in May 2010. Friends from school included the founders of ideation space
Read More »The Best (and Hardest) Way to Start a Company
How to live the entrepreneurial dream while minimizing your risks and maximizing your success.
Read More »Why Better Products Don’t Always Win
You may have superior technology or a great feature set, but if your product doesn't create value for the customer, its chance of success is slim. We've heard a number of CEOs say, "Our product is more advanced than anything else on the market.
Read More »‘How I Rebuilt After Disaster’
In 2005, New Orleans chef John Besh was living his dream as a high-brow chef. Then Hurricane Katrina hit, and he lost everything. Here's how he staged a comeback.
Read More »Increase the Power of Your Sales Force: 3 Tips
The secret to increasing your sales is to win the hearts of your sales team. At some point every sales manager watches Alec Baldwin in the 1992 movie, Glengarry Glen Ross, and dreams of the day they can deliver that iconic speech, "As you all know first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado
Read More »Make Your Vacations Good For Business
Too anxious to take a vacation? An expert insists stepping away can actually improve your business--if you do it right. Vacations: We all know we should take them for our mental health and the health of our relationships, but many entrepreneurs stress that stepping away from work responsibilities will harm their businesses and land them with a painful backlog of tasks upon their return.
Read More »5 Everyday Lessons From LBJ
The nation's 36th president, Lyndon Johnson, offers five tips you can use every single day to make your business stronger. For the past 30 years, author Robert Caro has been working on a five-volume biography of one man: President Lyndon Johnson.
Read More »5 Tricks to a Better Company Retreat
Strategy retreat: Two words that make even the toughest leaders cringe. Here's how to make the process less painful...and maybe even a little fun. It's only spring, but you're probably already thinking about next year.
Read More »Is Sheryl Sandberg the Real Brains Behind Facebook?
After the Instagram megadeal and "hoodiegate," Facebook investors may be taking comfort from the COO's leadership. The hit movie The Social Network depicted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a genius among slackers
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