Often seen negatively, boredom is crucial for creativity and growth – so stop turning to your phone when you feel it coming ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Michael Houston There’s a ...

Timelines, emails, back-to-back events—busy season for event professionals is no joke. And when it hits, your creativity can quickly take a backseat. This time of year has a way of turning even the ...

In the fast-paced world of marketing, I’ve always approached creativity as an organization’s bread and butter, with innovation as the knife that spreads it. As the VP of marketing at Hootsuite, I’ve ...

It’s raining AI updates right now. In a short period of time, we’ve had both ChatGPT’s new personality update, GPT-5.1, and then just recently, Google launched its major Gemini 3 upgrade. But, nestled ...

A conversation with marketing experts Kathryn Jacob and Sue Unerman on thinking outside the box every day. We all know that innovative thinking is vital to individual, team, and organizational success ...

We all know the experience of having an "a-ha" moment. We can be walking in nature, taking a shower, or playing the violin, in Einstein’s case, and suddenly a brilliant idea pops in our head. “Wow!” ...

Zehra Soysal is the Director of BizOps & Finance at Metaphysic.ai, an ex-BCG consultant, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. In fashion, every second and every dollar counts. While much of ...

No work in the pipeline? It’s a dreadful scenario that freelancers face from time to time. Contracts aren’t guaranteed. Often, they come in waves. Feast or famine is an apt description, even if it is ...

Does your neurodivergent kid's mind tend to wander? That might actually be a good thing. A new study discovered that so-called deliberate mind wandering can give people with ADHD the freedom to ...