37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
fastcompany.comLook at what the top stories are, and they’re all about raising money, how many employees they have, and these are metrics that don’t matter. What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?
Estimated reading time: 5 min
How To Be Happy Anywhere
fastcompany.comI came to realize that the more informed we are, the less happy we become because of our tendency to get caught up in constant comparisons. Working on this principle, it seems that the more limited the access to electronic media, the more time people spend together as friends and family and the higher the happiness quotient seemed to be.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
fastcompany.comMornings are a great time for getting things done. You’re less likely to be interrupted than you are later in the day. Your supply of willpower is fresh after a good night’s sleep. That makes it possible to turn personal priorities like exercise or strategic thinking into reality.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
fastcompany.comBut I think all you have to do is read TechCrunch. Look at what the top stories are, and they’re all about raising money, how many employees they have, and these are metrics that don’t matter. What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well? In the coverage of our industry as a whole, you’ll rarely see stories about treating customers well, about people building a sustainable business. TechCrunch to me is the great place to look to see the sickness in our industry right now.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
Nike: The No. 1 Most Innovative Company Of 2013
fastcompany.comHe actually loves that the group is "just mucking about and having fun," as he puts it. "Really cool stuff can come from the opportunity to test without constraints." And that, in sum, is innovation, Nike-style: a messy, exhausting process culled from myriad options and countless failures.
Estimated reading time: 17 min
Thank Facebook's Design Team For Every Warm And Fuzzy Moment You've Ever Had On The Social Network
fastcompany.comFacebook is playing a different design game than the rest of Silicon Valley. Instead of obsessing about making tasks like posting a photo easier or making the interface more beautiful, Facebook is getting its product out of the way. The goal, explains Cox, is to "make the experience of using Facebook as seamless and easy as talking to people in real life."
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch
fastcompany.comStrong cultures empower their people, they recognize their talents, and give them a very clear role with responsibilities they're accountable for. It's amazing how basic this is, but how absent the principle is in many businesses.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens
fastcompany.comHipstamatic's journey over the past year has been tumultuous, to say the least. As Fast Company has learned from speaking to more than a dozen players involved, Hipstamatic has wrestled with ever-growing social competition, internal tensions, and a lack of product vision--not to mention juggling acquisition interest and worsening term sheets in a post-Facebook IPO world.
Estimated reading time: 34 min
"Boy CEO" Mark Zuckerberg's Two Smartest Projects Were Growing Facebook And Growing Up
fastcompany.comTurning that "we're all coding together in one big room, and we get great ideas and move fast because anyone can walk up to anyone else" ethos into a business required the young CEO to turn his hacker sights on himself. An experiential learner, Zuckerberg transformed himself with astonishing discipline into a CEO worthy of the company he was building.
Estimated reading time: 16 min
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
fastcompany.comBut customer service is what Newmark does every single day at Craigslist, responding to user complaints and smiting scammers and spammers. He almost certainly has bigger fish he could pitch in on every day, but Newmark says customers service “anchors me to reality.”
Estimated reading time: 5 min
8. Bryan Cranston
fastcompany.comWe did have DEA chemists come on the set and teach us how to cook crystal meth.
Estimated reading time: 25 min
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