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Human relationships are dynamic, not static. Leaders who rest on their laurels or take people for granted can find themselves with problem relationships down the road.

Belfor Holdings CEO Sheldon Yellen explains why his billion-dollar company is nothing without his people. Sheldon Yellen had an inkling that he was out of touch with his 6,400 employees

How FamiliesGo! founder Eileen Gunn will break away from day-to-day tasks to map out a long-term strategy. Planning and structure has been on my mind lately. As a freelance writer I’m good at imposing both of these things on my work

Though the Texas fires dominated the news this summer, they were not America's largest. NASA's fire detection satellites are useful beyond just generating pretty but painful pictures.

Forget poking on Facebook or IMing people, shaking a hand or putting an arm on someone else's shoulder is where social interaction really begins. In Japan, this need for touch has extended to a focus on pets, including cafes for petting cats

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. PlayStation Vita Launching February 22, 2012 .

By tracking every step of the food production process, the next time people start getting sick from cantaloupes, it will be much easier to find which farms are clean, and which are responsible. Food contamination has been in the news recently, and for good reason; at this moment, people in the U.S. are still getting sick from cantaloupe tainted with listeria.

Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic

As the boss, you don't get much applause on a day-to-day basis.

The New York City company describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills." Personal finance security start-up BillGuard, which describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills," has closed $10 million in second-round financing. The New York City-based company scans credit card bills for unauthorized, wrong, or deceptive charges using a combination of algorithms, complaints posted on the Internet about scams, and feedback from users (the last bit being the "people-powered" part of the equation).

This post is one in a series introducing my new book, The End of Business as Usual . The state of social media is no insignificant affair. Nor is it a conversation relegated to a niche contingent of experts and gurus

With the likes of Whedon, Smith, Groening, Del Toro, and Roth as interpreters, Morgan Spurlock explores what's become a pop culture mainstay in Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. Commonly, and mistakenly, considered the domain of smelly dudes in freaky costumes, Comic-Con has emerged as the epicenter for pop-culture influence and a hotbed for creativity

Each of us has a lens through which we see the world, but we have the power to view the world through other lenses.

We've tapped experts in architecture and workplace design to explain what's wrong with cubicles, and how to remedy your dull office. Is your closed door killing your creativity?

How to engineer your non-first-class flight into a comfortable chance to get serious work done.