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When your business vision and the reality in which you live are miles apart, it may not be for the reasons you believe. Lack of money and time are the most typical issues that soloists cite for the mile-wide gap between vision and reality, but as they progress in coaching they discover that the true missing pieces are clarity, strategy and an empowering mindset.

Have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that the red snapper on your plate may actually be another kind of fish entirely?

This year, he launched the first social-networking automobile so drivers can get Facebook, Twitter, texts and Internet connectivity and still keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. The trick, Dinesh Paliwal, chairman, president and CEO of Harman International Industries, tells Fast Company, was to develop technology that serves to combat drivers’ distraction, meet auto regulations, and bring 4G smartphone-like functionality to the car. If he makes it sound simple, it’s because solving complex technological problems comes easily to this engineer with an MBA

Though some experts would argue that a company name doesn't affect the success of a business, there is a thing or two that small businesses can learn from the corporate giants that have turned their names into high-profile brands. When it came to finding a simple company name, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company had its hands full.

PGT: Luke Donald insists he's the best player in the world. After Thursday's round at the BMW PGA Championship, the rankings may no longer disagree.

Uploading your music to the cloud isn't as simple as you might think. As more data is stored online, the cloud takes more and more energy to maintain, forcing companies to get into the business of getting power as cheaply as possible

Someone at Amazon must have read our post about how Apple spun the white iPhone 4 fail into a PR win , because it's making a game attempt at turning its Lady Gaga blunder around. The company is relaunching its Lady Gaga offer (99 cents for her new album, plus a free upgrade to 20 GB of cloud music storage on its servers), noting "this time we're ready." Earlier this week, a crush of Gaga fans jumping on the deal crashed the company's servers, creating hours-long download times and leading commenters to publicly flog Amazon via the comments section on the Gaga's Born This Way album page--creating exactly the opposite of the goodwill it was going for.

Square's gone after the clunky old cash register. Now Google's trying to reinvent how we pay for even more things

WENTWORTH, England (AP) -Luke Donald started his bid to become the No. 1 player in the world in style Thursday, overcoming wet and windy conditions to shoot a 7-under 64 and open up a two-stroke clubhouse lead in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship.

LONDON (Reuters) - The world would not have to dig so much metal out of the ground if it strongly embraced recycling, which could be higher, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday. Smarter product designs and support for developing country waste management schemes would encourage recycling, said Thomas Graedel, a professor at Yale University and one of the authors of a report on metals recycling rates at a briefing. [More]

PGT: He trails Lee Westwood by the slightest of margins for No.

CEOs of two breakthrough, webby businesses show Fast Company how office policies built on frankness, trust, and occasionally awkward closeness engender a culture of success. Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: He has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better.

The human enterprise now consumes nearly 60 billion metric tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and plant materials, such as crop plants and trees for timber or paper.

It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 24 people, picked to live among mentors and innovation experts, stop going to school and start getting real--in business. One climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.