Author, Innovator, Entrepreneur
Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company, has a passion for the ideas and practices that are reshaping how organizations compete, innovate, and succeed. He inspires and equips leaders at every level to do the hard work of big change.
Performing While Transforming
How to Meet the Leadership Test of Our Time
Past Clients
Speaking
Bill has addressed audiences around the world from financial services, healthcare, technology, and countless other fields. He helps leaders think bigger, aim higher, and bring out the best in their colleagues.
Books
Simply Brilliant
How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways
Practically Radical
Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, Challenge Yourself
Mavericks at Work
Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
Bill's Previous Manifesto
Articles
Fast Company: This Brazilian billionaire should be your role model for corporate activism
Super-rich entrepreneurs love to explore brash endeavors outside the mainstream of their business—say, the high-profile space race between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, or Larry Ellison’s obsession with the America’s Cup. But it remains genuinely rare, and worthy of attention, when a billionaire entrepreneur takes a hard look at the […]
ReadHBR: How Leaders Can Balance the Needs to Perform and to Transform
These are trying times for optimists. Covid deaths remain tragically high. Job growth remains stubbornly low. So There has never been a tougher time to be a leader, whether that’s running a big company or being in charge of a small team, Bill Taylor writes in this piece. He offers three sets […]
ReadFast Company: How one humble Main Street retailer beat COVID-19—and Amazon
A crisis, the old bromide goes, is a terrible thing to waste. One way not to waste the brutal crisis we’ve experienced over the past year is to learn from organizations that have thrived while their peers have struggled. What did they see that others didn’t see? What did they […]
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About Bill
Bill Taylor is a writer, a speaker, and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed. He is the cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company.