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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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Win or lose, Barack Obama's rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here's why.
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Buffalo Bills season tickets, Obama campaign donations, cannabis indica, a "mom" tattoo, lottery tickets, two leather-bound bibles, Terminator collectibles, wedding expenses, and a divorce attorney -- all purchases people have posted on the website HowISpentMyStimulus.com, exposing what Rudy Adler calls the "idiosyncratic spending habits of the American public."
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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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Patrick Robinson
Executive Vice President of Design
Gap Adult and Gap BodyAfter stints at Armani, Perry Ellis, and Paco Rabanne, Patrick Robinson is leading Gap's design team.
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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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In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia province, the country's poorest. Maganja is a tiny district, a five-hour drive along tortuous, dusty roads -- traveled by villagers on bicycles with huge bags of firewood on their heads -- from Quelimane, one of the country's main port cities. Quelimane was journey's end for Livingstone on his trek from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean in 1856. But it is the start of my trans-African journey.
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Chris Reed isn't your typical CEO. He's a tie-dye aficionado who sports a ponytail, eats vegetarian, and enthuses ceaselessly about the benefits of yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. He comes off more like a freewheeling Californian—maybe a wave chaser or an amateur home grower—than a guy from Queens who runs a multi-million-dollar business.
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It's a new brand world.
That cross-trainer you're wearing -- one look at the distinctive swoosh on the side tells everyone who's got you branded. That coffee travel mug you're carrying -- ah, you're a Starbucks woman! Your T-shirt with the distinctive Champion "C" on the sleeve, the blue jeans with the prominent Levi's rivets, the watch with the hey-this-certifies-I-made-it icon on the face, your fountain pen with the maker's symbol crafted into the end ...
You're branded, branded, branded, branded.
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So what happens next in Adland? A couple of years ago, people in the advertising community looked out across the horizon and saw the Internet bearing down on them like an ugly tornado. They were terrified. The more they read about what was coming -- TiVo, permission marketing, wireless technology -- the more frightened they became. The question loomed: How does advertising's push model "work" in a networked, peer-to-peer world?
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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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I've been flabbergasted in a convenience store many times, but never because of something good. Typical is what my wife and I encountered on a road trip this past spring at a Turkey Hill Minit Market in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at 11 o'clock at night. I asked the clerk where we could get something to eat in the area given the hour. He replied, "I eat at home." I do, too, jerk, but I'm clearly not at home. We're at a gas station right off the highway. Was it really so ridiculous to ask?
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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."
