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Most public speakers are wildly overpaid, and I am no exception. I used to think I could justify my ridiculous fee by putting a lot of careful thought into each appearance, so I called my first presentation "Egalitarianism in the Modern-Day Workplace," and talked at length about "the changing face of the contemporary proletariat vis-à-vis the digital divide."
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The way we work is undergoing the biggest shift since Microsoft Office launched in 1989--and it's poised to make editing documents on your desktop as quaint as correcting mistakes with Liquid Paper. Collaborative work applications, collectively known as "office 2.0," now let you work remotely with other people in whole new ways.
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Fast Company is about to shake things up again.
Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: "Computing is Social." It became a Fast Company mantra and helped open the eyes of a generation of entrepreneurs to the possibilities of the Internet.
In November of 1997, before social networking on the Web was called social networking, FastCompany.com started the "Company of Friends," dubbed the "Fast Company Readers' Network."
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Facebook can be a lousy date. Nearly a month after Microsoft slipped Mark Zuckerberg's "social graph" $240 million for a pocket-sized 1.6% stake, the network unleashed an advertising platform that spread users' personal information like a loose-lipped lover. As newly four-year-old Facebook moves into its next stage in development, it awkwardly navigates its status as a third wheel with a penchant for tittle-tattle.
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A straw that kills germs, an ink jet technology to re grow tissue and bone, hologram images of a cancer patient's anatomy, and a cap that reads the brain waves of paralyzed people. These are just some of the finalists of this year's World Changing Ideas Awards -- an international competition held biennially by Saatchi & Saatchi.
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Win or lose, Barack Obama's rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here's why.
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The Fast Interview: Author Matt Mason on how the pirating of intellectual property can be a good thing.
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June 2002 The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot Business is a dogfight. Your job as a leader: Outmaneuver the competition, respond decisively to fast-changing conditions, and defeat your rivals. That's why the OODA loop, the brainchild of "40 Second" Boyd, an unconventional fighter pilot, is one of today's most important ideas in battle or in business. Keith H. Hammonds
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In the course of your work, you will have to communicate via electronic mail (email). In doing so, please adhere to the following guidelines.
Privacy: The email system and all content therein are property of the Company. Ownership includes but is not limited to work correspondence, flirty notes to your boyfriend, messages to girlfriends about the shortcomings of your boyfriend, and missives to coworkers concerning your supervisor's intelligence.
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“Come play!”
Shana Fisher emails this challenge from her eighth-floor perch at IAC headquarters, a sleek, white Frank Gehry jewel on Manhattan’s west side. Her office is immaculate, with four white leather chairs, a pink door, and a magnificent view of the Hudson River. Not that she notices on this Friday afternoon. She’s trying to navigate a blue marble across a virtual obstacle course without getting bumped off into the clouds.
“No mercy,” warns one of her opponents, a hard-core gamer in Eugene, Oregon.
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Clifford Kurz and Susan West Kurz are romantic zealots. Passion has ruled their 21-year relationship, as well as the tetchy perfectionism with which they ran Dr. Hauschka Skin Care, the exclusive distributor of German-made holistic skin-care remedies, from a converted barn in Hatfield, Massachusetts. It's that fervor that let the Kurzes ignore the advances of sugar-daddy suitors that would have paid them tens of millions of dollars, bucking the trend of onetime fellow die-hards selling out to major beauty companies.
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Oil prices are soaring. Returns on energy stocks have been fat. The 30 largest oil companies account for some 6% of the entire global equities market. In building wealth to pay for your kids' college or your own retirement, ignoring energy stocks can be costly. If you're a mutual-fund investor, you probably already own a chunk of Big Oil, even if you don't realize it.
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LS9's world headquarters looks like a dorm room on move-out day. The reception area at the biotech company's San Carlos, California, digs is stark white, unashamedly bare. No one has bothered to spring for prints or posters for the walls, not even from Ikea. Haphazard stacks of boxes line every corridor. It's no surprise LS9 doesn't put much of a premium on appearances--after all, its most important employees are patented microbes too small to be seen.
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It sounds like science fiction: A stent made of bioabsorbable plastic simply dissolves back into the bloodstream within a year or two after its work opening an artery is done--similar to the way sutures or bone screws are ultimately absorbed.
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Most weekday afternoons, you'll find Paul Ayala in his Manhattan studio, drawing furiously with a blue Magic Marker. His worktable is littered with shoe and clothing samples. From his black Converse Chucks to the bejeweled watch on his wrist--a new model he created for Ecko called the Eclipse, with the moon's phases marking the hours--he's as self-consciously stylish as you'd expect a young designer to be. And let's emphasize "young": Ayala is just 17.
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Google's VP of search products and user experience shares the rules that gives the search company its innovative edge.
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