When Paul Otellini, Intel's famously reserved CEO first heard the news, he got quiet. "The madder I get, the quieter I get," he says, an important footnote for any Otellini user manual. He was hushed via press conference by Neelie Kroes, the European ...
What if the best hospital designers are the patients themselves? At the brand new Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the architects gave the patients and their families seats at the drafting table. "Let's face it, many hospitals are pretty terrible ...
A lifetime and a career ago, I was a young entrepreneur with a brand new lease on an empty gallery space near the waterfront in Providence, Rhode Island. One of my first great acts was to borrow a neighbor's broom and sweep the sidewalk in front of my ...
Of all the nonsense metrics I like to use to measure brand strength, the most fun is my Facebook status update. By that shaky yardstick, I'd hit a deep wellspring of brand loyalty when I posted that I'd spent the day at Fast Company HQ drinking beer ...
The great lament of any reporter is what to do with the jewels that routinely get left on the cutting room floor after a really great interview. For me and many of my colleagues at Fast Company, that is often the "how I do what I do" stuff, the ...
In this modern age, we have become used to thinking about innovation as the domain of the iterative tinkerer, the weapon of choice for wizards who stay up late to make smaller, faster, cooler circuits and systems. But for Tami Minnier, chief quality ...
The President has set out a broad agenda for health care reform, with “patient-centered” medicine as a major touchstone. His visit to the Cleveland Clinic today is a smart choice. I recently spent more than two days with Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, M.D., ...
The controversial mayor of San Francisco wants to upgrade to the governor's mansion. Would you hire this pretty face to run the world's eighth-largest economy? EnlargePolarizing Figure: During Newsom's first campaign for mayor, he has burned in ...
"We've gotten good at market transitions over the years," says Sue Bostrom, Cisco's CMO. "Market transition" may be a charming euphemism for meltdown, but Cisco's real transition has been to use technology to connect with prospects. Bostrom, a ...
Sean Maloney (left) just wants people to buy things. "The last six months, people everywhere have been scared about what's happening in the world," says Maloney, Intel's chief sales and marketing officer. An ebbing tide -- and moribund electronics ...
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