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
HBR: Your Competitors Aren’t Always Who You Think They Are
When it comes to strategy, one way to meet radically new expectations in your industry is to draw from the impressive and surprising strategies that are being used in other industries. Why can’t interacting with an insurance company be as responsive and transparent as interacting with Uber? Why can’t checking […]
ReadHBR: Unleash Your Organization’s Overlooked Talent
Leaders everywhere are desperate for new insights, new products, new sources of energy and creativity. One way to find those things is to embrace new ideas about who gets to contribute and how, whether they are inside or outside the organization. The author points to two examples: the art exhibition […]
ReadHBR: Persuading Your Team to Embrace Change
How do leaders persuade people to do things they would rather not do? The author outlines two very different persuasive techniques based on social science: the “foot-in-the-door” technique and the “door-in-the-face” technique. Each of these techniques can work in the right situation, although neither of them translates perfectly from the […]
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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.