How to Increase the Odds of Success for Venture-Backed Companies

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.
How Your Biases Make You Blind

We best empathize with people—be they colleagues or customers—that we have some shared experience with.
Here’s How To Keep Your Company From Getting Crushed By The Next Big Thing

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.
Leadership Involves Poetry As Well As Plumbing

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?
How To Map Out Your Decision-Making

Mapping out of your decisions is a way of alleviating hindsight bias and gives you a more granular understanding of how you work.
Why You Must Be Constantly Changing In Order To Succeed

If you or your organization isn’t evolving, you are in danger of failing.
To Exist Is to Change

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.
Becoming an Entrepreneur…Through Enlightenment

A Bangladesh-born management guru, Faisal Hoque, explains how “mindfulness” can transform your business.
5 WAYS TO INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE YOU WORK WITH

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.
Fast Company :: Live Chat With 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 […]