Introducing ’10 More Don’ts Of Corporate Social Media’
Every company, corporation, and organization is struggling to get its corporate social media right. Boards are putting it on their agendas, as a reputational risk and opportunity. CEOs are puzzling...
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Much of the process of applying and interviewing for a new job is acting—creating a façade that you want the prospective employer to believe, and hiding elements of your true self that you don’t want...
View ArticleSerial Entrepreneur Talks Leadership, Margaret Thatcher And The Importance Of...
As a successful serial entrepreneur, Bettina Hein has a lot to say about how to run a business. She and her partners sold their last venture, SVOX, a speech technology software firm in Switzerland, for...
View ArticleA Crash Course In Leadership For 20-Something CEOs
Traditionally, leaders spent 20 or more years rising through the ranks before they made it to the corner office. But we're seeing a rise in CEOs in their 20s and 30s, who either founded their own...
View Article7 (Easy) Ways To Use Your Time Better In 2014
"Use my time better" is not one of the most common New Year's resolutions. Nonetheless, a life is lived in hours, and using your hours better enables all sorts of other changes. It's hard to lose...
View Article5 Tips For Receiving Great Ideas From Employees
If there's art in having good ideas, there's science in receiving them. Here are five ways to make it easy and rewarding for team members to deliver ideas: 1. Be a routi. In ancient Polynesian wars,...
View ArticleHow To Hire The A-Team Enterprise Salespeople
This guide is not for big old vendors or inside sales; this guide is for tech founders of enterprise software startups looking for outside sales people to generate millions of dollars for the company...
View ArticleHow to deal with uncertainty: The entrepreneur’s dilemma
This article originally appeared on The Next WebDenis Duvauchelle is the CEO & co-founder of Twoodo, the ultimate online collaboration tool. Things don’t stop changing just because we decide to...
View ArticleHow To Really Hire (and Retain) More Women In Tech
As the conversation around how to get more women into tech jobs continues apace, the fact remains that women make up about a quarter of all employees at tech giants Facebook, Apple, Google, Oracle, and...
View Article7 Ways to Keep Employees Happy
The secret to employee retention doesn't have to be a mystery. A simple place to start is by emulating the practices used by organizations that have been very successful at keeping their staff. Two...
View Article4 Strategies of America’s Best Places to Work
At Fast Company, we try to crack the code on what makes a business succeed or fail. It's a complex mix of culture, strategy, vision, and values. We've chronicled how to bake in success with each hire,...
View ArticleMind reading 101: The 10 questions you need to ask your team every week
This article originally appeared on The Next WebDavid Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post was originally published on the15Five blog. I am not a mind reader, but I’ve tried playing one at work. I...
View ArticleMaximize Your Team’s Productivity Through Technology
Most startups start small: one person, one idea, one computer. As the business grows, though, you have to figure out how to keep everyone moving together: you want to be an octopus (many arms) rather...
View ArticleFive Things I Learned as a Female Founder
According to research by Compass, only 10 percent of Silicon Valley startups are founded by women -- compared to roughly 50 percent of small businesses overall. It's not that women-founded startups do...
View ArticleWhen Saying "No" Can Help Your Business
We've all heard the saying, "The customer is always right." Except when they're not. Or when you're trying to move away from a particular area and focus your efforts elsewhere. That was the topic of...
View ArticleHow Mentoring May Be the Key to Solving Tech’s Women Problem
Lack of talent. That's what many people will say is the reason for the lack of women in STEM fields. But it's more than that. It's true that less than 20 percent of the bachelor's degrees in computer...
View ArticleThere Has Never Been a Better Time for CIOs to Fix IT’s Reputation
A recent Gartner study predicts that by 2015, 25% of large global organizations will appoint a Chief Digital Officer (CDO). In a time where there is a lot of technology analyst talk about the relevance...
View ArticleVirgin Atlantic Gives Employees Google Glass To Make Plane Travel Better
It's becoming increasingly clear that even if Google Glass fails to win over more stylish customers, the technology could one day find itself indispensable in a number of industries. We've already...
View Article8 Tips For Collaborative Leadership
Today’s corporation exists in an increasingly complex and ever-shifting ocean of change. As a result, leaders need to rely more than ever on the intelligence and resourcefulness of their staff....
View ArticleHow to Increase the Number of Women in Tech
Tech-industry executives say they have an extremely difficult time finding technical talent and that this shortage hurts their company's performance. They claim to look far and wide, including abroad,...
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