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To Give Better Feedback, Follow This Ancient Advice
"Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?"Giving feedback is unquestionably one of the most challenging tasks for any leader, as it can be painful to both the giver and receiver. It is nonetheless...
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How Facebook's Homegrown Data Centers Serve Billions Of Users, Now And In The...
Its apps and services are going to get more complex and demand more power. The company has to be ready.Do you enjoy looking at your friends' Instagram photos? Cherish the Facebook updates about your...
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This Dumb Year: The 67 Worst Moments In Tech 2016
Apologies galore! Exploding phones! A company named Tronc! And other stuff that made the year in technology so memorably off-kilter."Awful." "Terrible." "Very bad." Even " heartbreaking."To this bleak...
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The Technology That Gets A Package From The Warehouse To Your House
At UPS, holiday shipping means warehouse robotics, electric bicycles that bring packages to your home, and more.This holiday season, UPS is working long hours to make sure that customers get the gifts...
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Looking To Give Back At The End Of A Rough 2016? Follow These Examples
Finding meaningful ways to be generous with our time and money is helping a lot of us end a particularly divisive year on a positive note.Many Americans decided to give peace a chance at the end of...
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What Smartwatches Lost With The Death Of Pebble
As a business, Pebble was a failure, but its low-maintenance approach toward wearables deserves to live on.Earlier this month, Pebble's smartwatch underdog story reached a tragic conclusion: Under a...
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How The Jetsons Can Help With Your Last-Minute Holiday Shopping
If you want to impress everyone on your gift list, let the classic cartoon about the future be your guide.In 1962, Hanna-Barbera unveiled The Jetsons, a cartoon that took a look at what the world might...
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10 Last-Minute Gift Ideas That Can Help Make The World A Better Place
How you can put your money toward more than just more stuff—and nudge your friends and family in the right direction, too.If ever there was a year to give back, this is it. As 2016 comes to a close, so...
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Amazon's Holiday Shipping Rush Brings Growing Pains
Pilots working for Amazon's shipping subcontractors are complaining of missing birthdays and funerals due to their workload.This holiday season, Amazon is dealing with an unprecedented number of...
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This Startup Will Sequence Your DNA, So You Can Contribute To Medical Research
Will the opportunity to contribute to disease-ending medical research convince more people to get their DNA sequenced?The price to sequence the human genome has dropped from $100 million in 2001 to...
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Naughty And Nice Unicorns: Which Startups Are Getting Coal In Their Stockings...
Billion-dollar startups were chock-full of kindness and controversy this year. These are our picks for the best deeds and worst offenses.Every year, we cook up a list of who's been naughty and who's...
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The 10 Best Business Books Of 2016
From leading with grit to practicing deep work, these page turners introduced us to some new ideas this year.Whether you wanted new ways to think about your business, insightful advice to manage your...
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7 Ways Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Handle Year-End Stress
The holiday season may be all about selflessness, but a little self-awareness still goes a long way.It's no secret that the holiday season can be pretty stressful. Health experts at the Mayo Clinic...
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These Are The Five Key Battlegrounds For The Big Tech Platforms In 2017
Technology companies will increasingly invest in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other emerging tech next year.Large platform companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft...
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Displaced But Determined: How One Syrian Software Developer Restarted His Career
Five years ago, Adham Rchwani left Syria to rebuild his life in Germany. In his own words, this is what it's taught him.I know what it feels like to be the subject of a global debate, and so do 11...
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8 Must-Download Apps For Your New iPhone Or Android
Just unwrapped a new smartphone? Here's a little help navigating the ocean of apps that await you.If you just unwrapped a new smartphone or are thinking of using that envelope of holiday cash to run...
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How CEOs Will Make The World A Better Place In 2017
We asked six CEOs from across industries how they plan to positively impact the world in 2017.Fast Company asked CEOs across industries—social good, sexual health, beauty, tech, and more—about how, in...
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10 CEOs Share Their Leadership Goals For 2017
CEOs across industries share the leadership lessons they learned in 2016 and the leadership goals they plan to pursue in 2017.Fast Company asked CEOs across industries—social good, sexual health,...
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The Real Reason Your Crowdfunding Campaign Tanked This Year
Crowdfunding is really just another word for networking.A successful crowdfunding effort requires more than a sharp video and a bunch of tweets. It requires something decidedly low-tech: already having...
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Why I Can't Wait To Work In VR
The tech isn't quite there yet, but this CEO foresees improvements to productivity and work-life balance once it is.Startups run into countless problems, but my company recently hit one plenty would...
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