Your Funding Partner Could Actually Kill Your Company — Here’s Why
Given the buzz about funding from VCs, angels, and other sources, it may be counterintuitive to say that your funding partner could actually kill your company.
Given the buzz about funding from VCs, angels, and other sources, it may be counterintuitive to say that your funding partner could actually kill your company.
With a little forethought, leaders can create organizations that are agile, resilient, and consequently better equipped to experience sustained success.
“Innovation”, “mindfulness”, and “creativity” are terms we hear a lot these days, but where did they come from? These five books helped shape generations of thinkers, and their lessons still apply today.
The connections that the authors allude to here are more profound than the just those between people and organizations – they are also about how one’s actions are intricately and inevitably related to one’s experiences and state of mind.
An operating blueprint allows principals and a management team to work together based on converged intelligence of market opportunities, execution capabilities and business model differentiations.
The short answer is, it’s complicated. But there are some tangible traits that separate a bank teller from an artist.
Happiness is that inward state of perfect satisfaction which is joy and peace, and from which all desire is eliminated.
We best empathize with people—be they colleagues or customers—that we have some shared experience with.
Innovation is not a single moment of catharsis, upheaval, or revamping. It is not a change in the form of a one-hit product; instead, it is a continuous process.
The headlines scream about leadership failure after failure around the globe every day — at the world’s biggest companies, in government agencies, non-profits, academia and at startups. So why does leadership fail?
Mapping out of your decisions is a way of alleviating hindsight bias and gives you a more granular understanding of how you work.
The “father of microsurgery” can teach us a few things about innovation. For one thing, the road to getting there is a journey full of detours, not a straight trajectory.
If you or your organization isn’t evolving, you are in danger of failing.
In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
Tomorrow is today. If we or our organizations are waiting for things to get better, we’re missing the point: It’s up to us to make things better now.
A Bangladesh-born management guru, Faisal Hoque, explains how “mindfulness” can transform your business.
You Have An All-Star Team and Vision For Miles — What’s Missing? Bring Your Focus Back To Your People’s Potential with These Tips Form The Authors of Everything Connects.
On Friday, February 14th at 12pm ET Join Fast Company’s leadership editor Kathleen Davis as she interviews authors (and Fast Company contributors) Drake Baer and Faisal Hoque. Join Fast Company contributors Faisal Hoque and Drake Baer for a conversation with Fast Company Leadership editor Kathleen Davis — they’ll be discussing what it means to truly be a great leader in 2014. Enter your email to receive an email reminder when the event starts – click here. Drake and Faisal are the authors of a new book, “Everything Connects” — read a review of the book here. A former executive at General Electric and other multinational companies, Faisal has founded a number of companies, including Shadoka Ventures, and is the author of six other books,