All Entries Tagged With: "Fast Company"
Fast Company’s Top 100 Creative Business Geniuses
What does it take to be named among the Top 100 most creative people in business today? In examining the latest list issued today by Fast Company it appears agility and the ability to think in new and innovative ways are prized attributes.
1. Wada…
From Pink Slipped to No. 39 Most Influential Online
Two years ago, November 6th 2008 to be exact, I lost my job.
Prior to my layoff I thought that I was on top of the world and primed to be America’s next top CEO all before the age of 30.
In my mind there was Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban and someday Carlos Gil
I didn’t [...]
Is Your Boss a Certified Brasshole? Take the BRASS Quiz
Frequent readers of this blog know that one of the most successful tools, or if you prefer, PR gimmicks, we did for The No Asshole Rule was an online quiz called the ARSE, the Asshole Rating Self-Exam. This is a 24 item quiz to determine if you are a c…
The Corporate Conscience
There isn’t one.
Corporations don’t have a conscience, people do.
That means that every time you say, “It’s just my job,” or “My department has a policy,” or “All I do is work here,” what you’ve done is abdicated responsibility–to no one.
It’s conveni…
Quiz: Are You Hiring and Breeding Greedy and Selfish Employees?
For those managers worried they are staffing their teams with a bunch of jerks, we have this handy quiz! Answer truthfully and learn if you are a leader of obnoxious superstars.
EGOS Survey (Evaluation Gauge for Obnoxious Superstars)
Answer true or fal…
Are You Working With Energizers or Rotten Apples?
In this excerpt from GOOD BOSS, BAD BOSS: How to Be the Best … and Learn from the Worst, Robert Sutton tells us about those employees that elevate an office, and those deadbeats and downers that can destroy a company.Bring on the Energizers
Rob Cross…
How Science Is Used to Design the Perfect Shoe
Nike’s research lab has sensors under the running track, a gym in a freezer, and elite lab rats.The Innovation Kitchen shares the Mia Hamm Building with the Nike Sports Research Lab, a place where biomechanics experts test people and products to better…
How I Landed a No. 1 Album on iTunes Using Social Media
What I learned by activating my online influence (without the help of Ellen DeGeneres).
I started my blog Pacing the Panic Room two years ago as a way to stay connected to friends and document both my foray into step-fatherhood and my efforts to grow…
Boys Rules, Girls Lose – Women at Work
My two daughters are now in college and have put their toes in the working-world with summer jobs. As they’ve grown older, they’ve heard their parent’s advice about women in the workforce.
This post is not advice nor is it a recommendation of what you …
Write for Fast Company, or Be Our Photo Intern
Fast Company is looking for tech-savvy reporters to write daily news stories for the Web. This is a fast-paced virtual newsroom that requires experience pitching stories, responding to tips, tracking leaks, and breaking news for an outlet that has dou…
