The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association and educator in talent management strategies, announced today that Fast Company Co-Founder and Editor Bill Taylor will be a featured speaker at HCI’s second annual National Human Capital Summit, to be held in Phoenix March 19-21.
Day three of the Summit, Taylor will examine how companies and leaders can navigate a fast-moving world and devise strategies that win in the marketplace by opening themselves up to outside ideas and contributors. Brilliant people don’t have to work for you, Taylor explains, in order to work with you.
Providing such examples as the volunteer programmers who created the powerful Linux operating system, Procter and Gamble’s transformation of RandD, and the decision by the CEO of a major gold company to invite the whole world to tell him where to drill for gold, Taylor will demonstrate why embracing the outside-in-logic of innovation means abandoning familiar assumptions about where great ideas come from and who gets to be part of a company.
Bill Taylor is a provocative and inspiring voice on the future of business, said Allan Schweyer, HCI’s President and Executive Director. We are extremely pleased that he will be a keynote speaker at HCI’s upcoming Summit.
An agenda-setting writer, speaker, and entrepreneur who has helped shape the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed, Bill Taylor is Co-Founder and Editor of Fast Company, a magazine that has won numerous awards and earned a following of executives and entrepreneurs from around the world. Fast Company has won two coveted National Magazine Awards, was named Launch of the Year by Advertising Age, Startup of the Year by AdWeek, and Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age.
Before founding Fast Company in 1993, Taylor served as associate editor of the Harvard Business Review, where he focused on themes such as U.S.-Japan competition, global strategies, and the new business models emerging in Silicon Valley.
His articles and essays on business have appeared in a wide range of publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, Newsday, and Institutional Investor. Taylor is also co-author of three books on strategy, leadership, and innovation: The Big Boys: Power and Position in American Business, No-Excuses Management, and Going Global.
Bill Taylor is an Adjunct Professor at Babson College, where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship. He holds an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. from Princeton University.
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