10 Questions to Build a Better Understanding of the Boss Get inside your bosses head. Fast Company A Look from the Inside It pays to be a 24-hour company. Christina Novicki A Self-Test With No Answer Sidebar: Zen and The Art of Managerial Maintenance William Green Advertisers in Issue 3 The sponsors and advertisers from this issue of the magazine. Fast Company Batteries Included The skinny on Power Express - a lifesaver source of batteries. Eric Matson Boss to Self: How to Build a Better Me If you're an employee, you can't build a better boss. But if you're the boss, you can improve your boss skills and boss performance. Here are seven steps to building a better you. Len Schlesinger Buckman Labs Is Nothing but Net Buckman Labs makes chemicals -- but it sells knowledge. The challenge: invent a way for the global salesforce to spend more time with customers and share its brainpower. Glenn Rifkin Business School for KaosPilots Forget Harvard and Wharton. The new curriculum for managing change is taking off in Denmark. Dorte Hygum Sorensen Cellular Choices Fast Company compares three of the biggest national carriers. John R. Quain Cellular Ten The top ten tips for smart cell-phone use. John R. Quain Change - or Die! A letter from the founding editors. The Founding Editors Confessions of a Change Agent David Sheff Crush the Competition Sidebar: Customer, Sell Thyself JOnathon B. Levine Customer, Sell Thyself If you learned the old rules of marketing ... forget 'em! The Web changes push to pull and puts the customer in command. Here are the new rules. Jonathan B.Levine Destiny and the Job of the Leader Joe Jaworski's leadership search began with Watergate and took him to Royal Dutch/Shell. Alan M. Webber Digital Dojo A review of "The Martial Arts Explorer." Natalie Engler Digital Update - Call Back Later The world of PCS. Fast Company Director, Department of the Future Job Titles We'd Like to Have -- Marian Salzman Kate Kane Dirty Dancing, Consultant-Style Consultant Dubunking Unit Eric Matson Do-It-Yourself Mentoring The keys to self-coaching. Kate Kane Gauging Paging The latest in paging services. John R. Quain Get Promoted Without Promoting Yourself How to climb the ladder when the rungs are missing: six lessons in the subtle art of getting ahead in the new world of business. William Breen Getting Started Bob Buckman introduced the knowledge network K'Netix, but getting people to use it took some work. Christina Novicki Going to the Xtreme These business travelers aren't frequent fliers -- they're constant fliers. Travel tips on how to work, what to pack, where to sit, whether your shuttle's headed for an orbit in deep space or just circling over O'Hare. Polly LaBarre Green Machine Gunter Pauli's radical eco-factories completely eliminate pollution. They also rewrite the rules for growth, productivity, and profit. Steven Butler Have Your Pager Page My Pager Pagers with business features. John R. Quain How to Start in the Martial Arts Sort through the best-known martial arts -- and pick the path that's best for you. Natalie Engler In-Box for the Always-Out Premiere Technologies new WorldLink card allows holders to store and receive messages in the form of voice mail, faxes, and even e-mail. It's a travelling office for the road warrior. Eric Matson It Doesn't Take a Wizard to Build a Better Boss Like most people, I've spent my career working with the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Man. Len Schlesinger Levi's Changes Everything An inside account of the most dramatic change program in American business. David Sheff Management Bites Dog Food Factory It started as an experiment in workplace democracy and set performance records. So why did the bosses want to shut it down? Art Kleiner Managerial Wisdom from the Journey to Oz Even the Wizard knew there was little he could do for Dorothy beyond creating an opportunity for reflection and change. Fast Company Messaging Champion Job Titles We'd Like to Have: Mike Prescott Kate Kane My Favorite Bookmarks - Matt Rothman Picks from Sony VP Matt Rothman. Fast Company My Favorite Bookmarks - Regis McKenna Picks by high-tech marketer and author of "The Regis Touch." Fast Company Oracle Plays the Knowledge Game Tango, a business simulation from Europe, teaches the latest steps to leverage hidden sources of corporate value. Eric Matson Ten Commandments for Success on the Net The new rules for success. Larry Keeley Thank You Ma'am, May I Have Another? Harriet Rubin's commentary on the changing nature of sex relations in the business world. Harriet Rubin The Better Dojo Bureau How to choose a martial arts school. Natalie Engler The Great Peterman A Spy in the House of Work The Spy The Kick of Karate What do 10 million Americans see in the martial arts? Everything they need to block, punch, and kick their way through the day. Natalie Engler The Mort Files Mort Meyerson's cover story in the April:May issue of Fast Company prompted hundreds of e-mail messages. Fast Company The Smartest Stock Pickers in Cyberspace Move over, Beardstown Ladies! Wise up, Motley Fools! The Gurus' approach to investment combines savvy insights and online community. Tia O'Brien The Standout Jose Arreola Scott McMurray The Team Player The Team Player Scott McMurray The Zig-Zag Career Path The new road map for getting ahead. David Diamond This Organization Is Dis-Organization No titles. No offices. No paper. How Denmark's Oticon thrives on chaos. Polly LaBarre Ultimate Mobility Cell-phones are standard-issue tools for the professional Road Warrior. By the way, how do you use these things? John R. Quain White Collar, Black Belt Some first-step exercises for putting Aikido tactics into practice. Natalie Engler Wonder Women in the Rude Boys' Paradise Microsoft upgrades its treatment of women to corner the only market that matters: talent. Fred Moody You Can't Call There from Here Cell tips for the international traveller. John R. Quain Zen and The Art of Managerial Maintenance It's trendy now, but Albert Low saw it 30 years ago: conflict exists in every being. Oh -- it also abounds in business. William Green
