Huawei CEO on his company’s unusual governance structure

In a rare interview, the Chinese CEO discusses how his powerful company is organized. FORTUNE — Huawei’s massive presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona couldn’t be missed. Conference-goers were greeted with the Chinese telecom gi

Why Texting ‘LOL’ May Be Making You Smarter | Fast Company

Teachers, and parents alike bemoan texting as the fall of literacy, turning writing into an informal landscape that neglects the tenants of language. But during his TED talk, linguist John McWhorter introduced a more positive view of the language-cha

Let the People Live-Stream?

Startup Koozoo wants us to join its streaming video network. I’m not convinced of its widespread utility, though.

Top 20 Innovation Articles – February 2013

Drum roll please At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazi

Your Brain Is Hooked on Being Right

I’m sure it’s happened to you: You’re in a tense team meeting trying to defend your position on a big project and start to feel yourself losing ground. Your voice gets louder. You talk over one of your colleagues and correct his point of view. He pus

Is Personality Coaching a Part of Life Coaching?

Life coaching is about helping clients achieve their goals and dreams by asking questions and helping create a road map to these goals, but can it also be about personality coaching? As a life coach, are you also a personality coach? Do you delve int

Africa Is More Stable than You’ve Been Led to Think

The recent political instability in Mali has cast a cloud of poor publicity over the economic and commercial rise of Africa, one of the few bright spots in the global economy. Press analysis has speculated whether political instability is endemic to

The 3 Rules Of Innovation: Location, Location, Location

Does manufacturing have a future in the U.S.? A two-year-long study suggests it does–especially if companies work together. It’s been two years since a group of 21 scientists from MIT announced the creation of Production in the Innovation Economy

Why Innovation By Brainstorming Doesn’t Work

Anything–even doing laundry–will help you dream up new ideas better than sitting in a meeting, says Debra Kaye, author of “Red Thread Thinking.” A case study of the history of the single-use detergent pod. Eleven men and women file into a conferenc

You can’t change everything or everyone, but you can change the people who matter

Marketing is about change–changing people’s actions, perceptions or the conversation. Successful change is almost always specific, not general. You don’t have a chance to make mass change, but you can make focused change. The challenge of mass media