A company doesn't have to be new to be fast. Our list has centenarians like GE and Corning bumping up against young punks like Baidu and AKQA. The result? A master list of innovators who are reinventing the rules of the change game that is today's business.
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More than a dozen Googlers describe what life is like at a place where no goal is too audacious, agility means more than power, and even cafeteria food represents an opportunity to change the world.
Unlike most companies that have a "campus", but are unwilling or unable to shake the usual staid corporate culture, Google applies the same ingenuity to its internal operations as it does to Internet search.
You have to be fearless to index every Web page and decide what's most relevant. To offer a home page that’s nearly empty except for a single box and a few links. To try and develop low-cost renewable energy -- when you’re not an energy company. The marvel of Google is its ability after 10 years to preserve optimism and to instill a sense of creative fearlessness, even as the company grows to more than 16,000 employees. Read what Googlers have to say about the Internet giant in these web-exclusive articles.
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