It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...

The best products are often sparked as ambitious ideas that are pushed up against guardrails while barreling along the product development highway. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...

FC: In your book, Make it Bigger, you devote a substantial amount of text–not to mention diagrams of org charts–to the Byzantine process you had to go through back in the 1970s at CBS Records trying ...

Like any relationship, problems sometimes arise between clients and designers. Clients expect designers to work magic, but ...

Decision fatigue is the overwhelming sensation people experience when they are faced with making too many decisions. When this feeling arises, the quality of decisions can deteriorate. As an architect ...

One of the most important conversations you will have with a prospective client takes place within the first 15 minutes. Having a practiced outline to follow is the first step to uncovering possible ...

Graphic design agencies create visual communication materials for their clients such as logos, marketing materials and advertising. They work with their clients to identify business objectives, create ...

Identifying your hot and buying ideal client is the fast path to design success. You can stop spinning your wheels trying to be all things to everyone and focus on those clients you enjoy the most.

At a conference several weeks back, I was talking with a seasoned wealth manager about his business. He had been running an independent practice for roughly 20 years and he had a great, profitable, ...