FC Experts Blogs

Topics:

Innovation
Technology
Leadership
Change Management
Careers
Design
Social Responsibility
Work/Life

Innovation

James Andrews | Geek Sexy
James Andrews is the brainchild behind a community known as The Key Influencer: a blog, podcast show and invite-only newsletter where Andrews communicates with innovative business leaders working in entertainment, advertising, and new media. In Geek Sexy Andrews explores how technology fuels creativity, content, design and productivity in the lives of the influencers who drive culture.

Adam Hanft | Change Pulpit
Adam Hanft, branding guru and media/cultural critic, explores the volatile terrain and brings back the caged canaries that individuals and companies must heed if they are to be at the threshold of sustained innovation.

Sasha Issenberg | The Sushi Economy
Sasha Issenberg, author of The Sushi Economy: Globalizaton and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, explores the worldwide business and culture behind the food on your plate -- and the world in which we live.

Valeria Maltoni | Customer Conversation
Marketer Valeria Maltoni worked in five different industries within corporate America, elbow to elbow with her sales and customer service colleagues. Her credo is: customer relationships are conversations.

Tatsuya Nakagawa and Peter Paul Roosen | Inventoritis Free?
Marketing junkie Tatsuya Nakagawa and engineering nerd Peter Paul Roosen debate the issues around effective innovation. Authors of Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation, and founders of the Atomica Creative Group, they teach you how to improve the return on innovation investments by avoiding pitfalls like falling in love with your invention.

Brian Reich | im-media-te impact
Brian Reich explores how organizations are building new business practices and exploring new communication models to better serve audiences.

Andy Sernovitz | Word of Mouth
Happy customers are your greatest advertisers. Word of mouth guru, author, professor, and entrepreneur Andy Sernovitz explores how you can create a fantastic company that grows through word of mouth. It's more fun to work at a company that people love to talk about.

Jeff Thull | Strategy to Execution
Jeff Thull, focusing on complex sales, is a leading-edge strategist, best-selling author, and valued advisor for executive teams worldwide. Jeff stimulates innovation in sales and marketing by challenging conventional wisdom to ensure that we all get paid for the value we create.

Richard Watson | The Future of Innovation
Richard Watson, CEO of Global Innovation Network and author of Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years, explores the latest news on innovation. Which tools and processes are working and why? Which new innovations and ideas will change the world and why? Get expert insights on all this and more from his blog.

Technology

Robert T. Buckman | Cool Your Jets
Amadeus' Airline Futurist reveals how technology is changing travel in the air up there.

Bill Cammack | DeMux
Emmy Award winning video editor Bill Cammack discusses issues and trends in digital video and videoblogging.

Peter Fasano | Web To Ohh
New media is not just about the convergence of content and platform. Digital media strategist Peter Fasano shows how form, function, and innovation are feeding the Web's new boom -- and revolutionizing the consumer experience.

Stephen Rose | The Tech Odyssey
Tools are only as good as the people who use them. The right tool can define success or failure. This blog will be dedicated to the tech tools and resources that can help businesses, both large and small achieve that edge that provides success.

Clyde Smith | This Business of Blogging
Clyde Smith considers the business of blogging from cottage industry to corporate communications.

Greg Spotts | The Digital Entertainment Column
Greg Spots, author, filmmaker, and Creative Director of the Shortlist Music Prize, brings vast experience in music and television production to present an in-depth look at digital media and entertainment.

David Teten and Scott Allen | The Virtual HandShake
Serial entrepreneur and investment research expert David Teten and small business expert Scott Allen write about best practices worldwide for people who want to sell, market, and raise capital using online networks and other Web 2.0 technologies. Their book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online is the manifesto; their blog is the living guide to how your company and you can most effectively use these technologies.

Leadership

Grace Andrews | Are You Listening?
Grace Andrews is a dynamic facilitator, writer and corporate healer, as well as the founder and President of Training By Design, an organizational development company. In this blog, Grace will share her expert views on what she knows best -- how to move leaders and teams to greater heights.

John Baldoni | Grab n' Go Leadership
John Baldoni is a leadership consultant, coach, and speaker who helps men and women managers become more effective leaders. His blog is a must read for managers who need to know whom to lead and how to lead when it matters most.

Jim Bolt | Executive Development: Past, Present and Future
Jim Bolt, founder and chairman of Executive Development Associates, pioneered the use of custom-designed executive development strategies, systems and programs to help CEOs and other senior leaders achieve their strategic objectives. Here, in his typical outspoken fashion, he shares his 30-plus years of experience as a corporate executive, consultant to global 500 companies, and author.

Mark Goulston | The Leading Edge
Best selling author, executive/leadership coach and business psychiatrist Mark Goulston, M.D. offers up counter intuitive insights that will cause you to look at things in a whole new way, giving you an edge over those who don't and putting you on the path to becoming a leader.

Donna Karlin | Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership
Jumping into the deep end of the multi-faceted world of Leadership with someone who sees these dynamics unfold, Executive Shadow Coach™ Donna Karlin.

Jeanne Meister | New Learning Playbook
About Jeanne Meister- Jeanne Meister is an author, consultant and speaker who works with organizations to re-invent their corporate learning departments using innovative design and delivery to achieve business results. Her blog, New Learning Playbook, tracks innovations, trends and case studies among corporations, universities and government agencies leveraging the latest social networking tools to enhance learning and the development of talent.

Ruth Sherman | Lip Service
Ruth Sherman is a consultant, author and speaker who works with business leaders, politicians, and celebrities on high-stakes communications of all kinds. This blog focuses on leadership communication.

Doug Sundheim | Leading Ideas
Leadership coach Doug Sundheim offers insights and exercises from his client work in Leading Ideas.

Change Management

Joe Blumenfeld | Going Global
Joe Blumenfeld brings 15 years of experience working with corporate global clients, and with with experience managing PR agencies and programs in 28 countries on six continents to Going Global.

Chip Conley | Peak Experiences Create Peak Performance
Hospitality maverick and author, CEO Chip Conley applies a new psychology of business to key relationships with employees, customers and investors.

Marcia Conner | Learn at all Levels
Marcia Conner, author of Learn More Now and Creating a Learning Culture, spent years inside fast companies reinventing corporate education. She offers approaches for learning smarter and developing organizations which produce more energy than they consume.

Jory Des Jardins | From Here to Autonomy
BlogHer Co-Founder Jory Des Jardins explores how the workplace is changing, becoming more personal and meaningful. Small business and corporate workers alike can love what they do.

Tim Manners | Shop Talk
Tim Manners, editor of Cool News of the Day and The Hub magazine, tracks marketing trends and ideas, with a special focus on retail and its evolution as a medium of marketing.

Anupam Mukerji | Business in India, Interpreted!
Marketing strategist Anupam Mukerji takes a look at the impact of socio-economic evolution on business transformation in India.

John Pasmore | Mostly Def
Urban media veteran John Pasmore gets next up in TV, film, fashion, and the business of urban.

Karen Post | Start-up Brands
Known as the Branding Diva, Karen Post is a branding and business enthusiast and serial entrepreneur. At age 22, she founded an ad agency that she led for 2 decades and later evolved onto the international stage as a professional speaker. She now leads a start-up, Oddpodz, which is a network for creative professionals.

Careers

Keith Ferrazzi | Connecting for Life Success with Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone, is one of the world's most "connected" individuals. The son of a steelworker and a cleaning lady, he used his relationship-building skills to become CMO of Deloitte and then Starwood Hotels before founding his own strategy and training company, Ferrazzi Greenlight. Discover the power of relationships in this blog.

Shawn Graham | Mutual Attraction
In this blog, Shawn Graham, Associate Director, MBA Career Management Center, UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School, shares his thoughts on how to attract and be attractive to rock star job candidates.

Margaret Heffernan | Talent Warrior
Successful companies and successful careers need the same ingredients: great talent, great networks and a clear sense of purpose. Margaret Heffernan has run both and knows first hand what it takes -- whether you're an entrepreneur, corporate exec or free agent -- to navigate the global economy.

Wendy Marx | Brand U
In a world of brands, it's easy to forget the most important one: YOU. Wendy Marx, a PR expert with 20 years of experience branding companies, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, discusses personal branding and how best to get YOU to stand out.

Rusty Weston | Job World
The global economy is reshaping our careers, but it's catching most of us unprepared. Rusty Weston, an award-winning journalist, researcher, and driving force behind My Global Career, a blog-based information resource serving the unique information requirements of global workers, provides you with the tools and insights you need to navigate a global career.

Design

Nicol Akins | DEZNR RED
Akins’ love for design began at the age of eight, when she would watch and learn from her mother who designed and sewed. Now as the creator of DiRTY ReD, Athletic Wear for Women, she talks about the business of fashion design.

Mark Dziersk | Design Finds You
Great Design is born from passion and emotion. This blog touches upon topics that elicit emotional responses to the way design, as an agent of change, is affecting people, businesses, products and places. Design thinking transcends the boundaries of professions: when it finds you, as it will in this blog, you'll find yourself hooked.

David-Henry Oliver | Object Lessons
David-Henry Oliver is a product development and strategy consultant at Cusp Development. In Object lessons he explores the interplay of product design disciplines to develop better products.

Nick Rice | Bridging the Gap
Nick Rice chats about the gap between creativity & strategy. He specializes in helping successful professional service firms that struggle to attract more clients.

Manuel Saez | The Power of Design
Manuel Saez writes about design as a strategic tool and how businesses can leverage The Power of Design to increase value not only on their product and services but also in the way their organizations work and think.

Paul Scrivens | The Business of Design
Paul Scrivens writes about all things pertaining to design, business and the new Web that we are facing everyday and how they all come together.

Social Responsibility

Steve Brant | Wise Company
Business Futurist, Steve Brant, explores the theory and practice of innovation-driven corporate social responsibility, where the CSR movement's leaders set the trends that others follow.

Chris Rabb | Doing Well at Doing Good
Chris Rabb offers an eclectic, sometimes irreverent, and always incisive commentary on in the interdisciplinary pursuit of social responsibility within entrepreneurship. Rabb pays particularly close attention to trends, policies, and other forces shaping the adoption of and impact on social enterprise development in under-served communities.

Terry Tamminen | Green Guru
Environmental activist, Terry Tamminen, is the former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and now provides energy/environmental advice to numerous world leaders, including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. An Operating Advisor on cleantech innovation and investment to Pegasus Capital Advisors, in his blog he addresses sustainability issues, the business of alternative energy and building materials, homeland security and more.

Work/Life

Lynette Chiang | The Seamless WorkLife
Author and world traveler Lynette Chiang aka Galfromdownunder.com lives a seamless worklife as Customer Evangelist for Bike Friday. After switching careers from left brain (IT professional), to right brain (Saatchi & Saatchi award winning ad copywriter), to no-brain (loitering around the world for 7 years on a folding bicycle), she bundled it all together and presents her lessons learned in this blog.

Tom Stern | My Work-Life Balance Sheet
Tom Stern, founder of the syndicated comic strip character CEO DAD, suffers from a rare condition called multiple career disorder. Like many of us, he's been struggling to find the work-life balance in his life, but, he doesn't always get it right, as this often outrageous blog demonstrates.

Owen N. Wild | On Business, Will Travel
Road Warrior Wild of Amadeus, the world's leading travel technology provider, not only tells you how to cut time and stress on your next business trip, but offers expert insight to companies seeking to make their travel dollar go farther.

Cali Williams Yost | Work+Life "Fit," Not Balance
Cali Williams Yost is an author, consultant and speaker with over 12 years of experience developing innovative work+life flexibility strategies for corporations and individuals. She offers real-world insights into how to find a successful work+life "fit" in today's 24/7, high-tech, global work reality. Because there is no such thing as "balance".