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If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong.
Read More »A Long, Strange "Trip to the Moon"
It took science, faith, and a bit of magic (oh, and 10 years and a million bucks) to bring a lost version of a pioneering silent film classic back to colorful life. Here’s how it happened.
Read More »"Steve Jobs" By The Numbers
Just how big will the biography of the late Apple founder be? It's "the biggest nonfiction book of the year," a publishing insider tells Fast Company. Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs
Read More »Leadership Hall Of Fame: Warren Bennis, Author Of "On Becoming A Leader"
Have the requirements for being a good leader changed? We continue our examination of the business book On Becoming A Leader with an interview of author Warren Bennis.
Read More »10 Points Business Leaders Can Learn From Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was one of the best business strategists of our time. So what lessons can we take from Apple's moves over the years? Before speaking at a conference last year, I received a rather unusual instruction
Read More »When Not to Say No to a Buyer
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Read More »Netflix Dumps Qwikster, Keeps DVDs, U.S. Government Seeks Out WikiLeaks Emails, Sony Pictures Buying Rights To "Steve Jobs"
Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Will Keep DVDs . Netflix will keep its DVD mailing business after all, company CEO Reed Hastings has revealed in a blog post . In August, Netflix announced
Read More »How Can You Worship An Entrepreneur On Sunday and Step Over One on Monday?
All week, impromptu memorials have been popping up at Apple stores throughout America to commemorate the man who gave Apple life, Steve Jobs.
Read More »What If You Can’t Give Things Away?
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Read More »Want to Know What Your Employees Really Think?
Consider staging a Comedy Central-style celebrity roast of your top-selling product. Once a year or so, everyone at our company gets together for a week to hang out, work together, and socialize. Because 37signals consists of 28 people located in nearly 20 cities around the world, these get-togethers are rare—and important
Read More »Russell Simmons Talks Business
Serial entrepreneur Russell Simmons shares his strategy on turning an idea into a successful enterprise. Russell Simmons is recognized globally for his influence and entrepreneurial approach to both business and philanthropy
Read More »One Simple Question to Unlock Unbeatable Marketing: Clayton Christensen Interview
Clayton Christensen is someone I greatly admire.
Read More »Collaborative Consumption Leader And Unlikely VC Rachel Botsman Will Convince Us All To Share
How do you score a job at a buzz-worthy new venture fund if you don't have a background in finance, you're not an engineer, and never ran a venture-backed company? Be a muse, an authority, and maintain a serious network--that was the answer for Rachel Botsman, now a partner at Collaborative Fund .
Read More »Listening To Your Customers With The Five Digital Senses
After a one-day course I teach on “influence,” participants often comment that they are surprised it took so long to get what they came for. They signed up to learn how to convince people, how to shape others’ perceptions, how to make more conversations go the way they want them to go.
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