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Clayton Christensen and How Will You Measure Your Life?

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.22.2012

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Clayton Christensen may be inspiring, but teaching folks how to value and measure their lives is a stretch.

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Girl Scouts and the Future of Business

Ellie Cachette | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Girl Scouts, Women in Business, Innovation Uncensored, Women in Tech, Carol Cone, Ellie Cachette, Fast COmpany's INnovation Uncensored, Fast Company, Anna Maria Chavez, Video, Women News

New York City: Top leaders in PR, writers for tech, founders, executives and scientists came together for Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored to brai...

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Steve Jobs In 'Lost' Interview: 'My Model Of Management Is The Beatles'

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.18.2012

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Before the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod, before the famously simplistic uniform of blue jeans and a fitted black turtleneck, there was simply Steve J...

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Fashion With a Conscience

Phil Shepherd | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: India, Equality, Alaska, Fair Wages, Good & Fair, Fast Company, Shelton Green, Entrepreneurial, Fangfang Wu, Human Trafficking, Austin Texas, Texas, Education, Human Rights, Schools, Fashion, Fair Trade, China, Greenbox, Style News

Shelton Green, risking everything for his unwavering dream, has created a line of fashion that both looks great and is conscious of the people who have created it.

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PHOTO: Trader Racks Up Insane Nightclub Bill

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Bloomberg, Ace of Spades, Zone Invest Group, Video, Alan Hope, Mirror, Wall Street, Nightclubs, Champagne, New York Times, Lamborghini, Foreign Exchange, Fast Company, Wall Street Bonuses, Kappa Beta Phi, Dubai, Business News

Ever partied for $100,000 per hour? One British finance wonder kid seems to have. Alex Hope, a 23-year-old UK foreign exchange trader, reportedly r...

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Wall Street's Free Lunches

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: The Jane Dough, Video, Wall Street, seamless.com, Gourmet, Wall Street Perks, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Food, Banks, Wall Street Banks, Fast Company, Business News

Even on Wall Street, there's no such thing as a free lunch. But there are free fancy dinners. Most junior bankers on Wall Street are allowed a $25 ...

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The Girls Are Alright

Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: The Case for Girls, Advertising, Marketing for Girls, Daughters, Slidepollajax, Ads for Having Daughters, Fast Company, Fake Ads, Women and Advertising, Parents News

I wonder: do parents really need to be sold on girls, literally or otherwise? From where I sit, girls are all the rage, and the anti-baby-girl trends Kamenetz refers to are reversing, not accelerating.

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Make the Most of Your Business's Facebook Page

Anne Hill | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Mari Smith, Social Media, Small Business, Fast Company, Facebook, Facebook Pages, Small Business America, Business News

If you have a Facebook page for your business, now is a great time to try out some of these new tips and tricks for increasing your exposure and reach on the Facebook platform.

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WATCH: Conan O'Brien Makes Love To The Camera

Posted 07.16.2011

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"Fast Company's" annual list of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" comes out this week and they found the perfect cover boy in Conan O'Brien. ...

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The Miami Heat Is The New Corporate Model Of Teamwork, Apparently

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Miami Heat, Eat the Press, Fast Company, Awkward Metaphors, LeBron James, Video, Media News

I don't even know how to begin with this Fast Company cover story on LeBron James, the Miami Heat and what they teach "us about teamwork."

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Students as Change Agents in the Classroom

Joe Astroth | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Fast Company, Education, Khan Academy, Education Reform, Public Education, Discovery Channel, Education News

Students aren't confronted with an educator's impediments, so they might actually be in a better position to lead the charge.

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Who Gives The Best Info? A Short History Of Information Design

Paula Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last month, FAST COMPANY magazine published the best info-graphics of the year from their design blog. The choice was derived from FC's own postings o...

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Fast Company's Influence Project Is About to Burst Every "Social Media Guru's" Bubble

Courtney Boyd Myers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Branding, Fast Company, The Cover Project, Mekanism, Social Media, Media News

In case you needed one more virtual assurance that you have online friends, Fast Company has introduced "The Influence Project," an attempt to produce a quantitative social media metric.

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You Go, Gaga

Cristen Conger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Love her or hate her, you have to hand it to Lady Gaga - the woman knows how to sell. Beyond the Rolling Stone covers, business rags have also tracked...

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Get a College Education for Free

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 05.25.2011

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College does not need to cost thousands of dollars per year. Now there is an online university where students can go for free.

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What Is QR Coding?

Paula Berg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mack Schwab, National Safe Place, QR Coding, New York Times, Fast Company, Louisville Zoo, Sxsw, Paula Berg, Grum, C21, block5, Technology News

Once America catches on to QR bar codes, it is going to explode and QR readers are only going to get better with 4G.

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Innovations that Change the World

Jenny Darroch | Posted 05.25.2011

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I often feel that when an innovation is successful, I can't imagine life without it. I feel like that about many of the products and services from companies that made Fast Company's World's 50 Most Innovative Companies list.

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Fast Company Founder on future of Curation & Magazines

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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From his chair as the Managing Editor of The Harvard Business Review, Alan Webber could see that there was something changing in the business world. S...

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Six Degrees of Urban Myth

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fast Company, Malcom Gladwell, Six Degrees of Separation, Duncan Watts, Stanley Milgram Experiment, Kevin Bacon, Social Networking, Healthy Living News

There is a powerful network linking us all, and maybe Milgram had the right idea - even though his research was flawed.

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Ten Tips to Running a Good Book Reading

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Barnes and Noble, Book Tour, Adam L. Penenberg, Ponzi Scheme, Greenwich Village, Fast Company, Facebook, Book Tours, Iphone, Viral Video, Book Reading, Viral Marketing, Viral, Reader Q & A, Adam Penenberg, James Hong, Books News

Although there were only 30 people in attendance for his reading, Penenberg led it skillfully. Amateur writers should take note of some of Penenberg's successes.

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The Silver Lining of Job Loss

Rick Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Job Losses, Job Loss, Career Advice, Careers, Fast Company, Getting Fired, Career Change, Recession, Business News

Personal evolution works best under conditions that most favor variation and change. It is your incompetence, not your successes, which often lead you to the path that is uniquely right for you.

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Slow Down -- Speed is So Yesterday

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Distraction, Gordon Brown, Add, Recession, Economy, Exhaustion, Cnbc, Bbc, Blackberry, Fast Company, Exxon Valdez, Business News

If the current downturn means that we all slow down a little, that may turn out to be the smartest strategy of all. Because the economy surely can't recover until we do.

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