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Even at the best of times, naming is a contentious and emotional business.

Everyone wants an iPhone.

A former fighter pilot explains how to use military discipline to increase your sales figures. There are real similarities between flying combat missions and going on sales calls, according to former fighter pilot Rob "Waldo" Wingman , author of the bestseller Never Fly Solo: Lead with Courage, Build Trusting Partnerships, and Reach New Heights in Business . As he explained it to me a while back: "Both jobs require short-term mission success and long-term victory, both require specialized training, and both demand an ability to perform under stress." Here are Wingman's 10 steps for "flying" your next sales "mission." Phase 1: Preparation 1.

No one has time to listen to chit-chat. Use these tricks to get more out of less in conversations with busy executives. Who has the time now for long conversations

If you blow it at a face-to-face meeting, you'll have wasted both your time & your client's. Avoid these goofs to turn more prospects into paying customers. Customer visits are expensive–and if you don't make a sale, your time and travel expense has been wasted

Starting a business can be hazardous to your health--who has time to think about staying fit?

In a fast-changing world, get ahead by upgrading your technology for these four processes. As a successful small business owner in 2012, there is no doubt you've been smart in running your operation. You've made it through some difficult times and that requires organization, a solid business model, and an ability to adapt

If you've ever been on the phone in a crowded room…hold on… [More]

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Fair Labor Association Inspects Foxconn Factories . Apple has asked the Fair Labor Association to conduct a round of audits on several suppliers including Foxconn in China.

Last year, I received an email I will never forget: one of the world’s tobacco giants wanted me to consult for them. It’s not that I’m a stranger to requests from the tobacco industry. In fact, ever since I published Buyology in 2008, my email address appears to be on every tobacco executive’s Rolodex

I stopped asking my students to write essays years ago. When I required them, I was shocked to find nearly half of the papers had been plagiarized! These young college undergrads, studying entrepreneurship, could not understand why copying text from a Google search and pasting it into a paper as your own is wrong.

Everyone (including the New York Times !) is suggesting that Google is busy designing and testing its own-branded hardware--information that's coming directly from insiders with knowledge of the company's plans.

We all want more time. But how do you get it

iPad 3 Arrival Date According to the usual wonderfully unreliable (and always anonymous) " sources ," Apple may be poised to reveal the iPad 3 during an early March event, with in-store availability just a handful of days later. If you look at the booking information for the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco, an Apple staple for this sort of event, it looks like Wednesday March 7th is being held open for an undisclosed booking (or at least this day is oddly empty among a cluster of other bookings).