Advertisers in Issue 7 Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company magazine. Fast Company Annual Report A letter from the founding editors. The Founding Editors Back to the Farm Rosenbluth International, a $2.5 billion travel service business, combines plain-and-simple values with cuttingedge technology. It's a down-to-earth strategy designed to take the company back to the farm. Rob Walker Chief Growth Officer Job Titles of the Future: Bob Heckman Fast Company Cigar, Unwrapped From seed to smoking: deconstructing the cigar. Peter Kaminsky Clean Up Your PC! How to clean the cobwebs out of your computer. John R. Quain Director of Intelligence Job Titles of the Future: Velda Ruddock Fast Company Dirty Business, Bright Ideas You don't have to be glamorous to be cutting edge. Finland's SOL Cleaning Service combines radical innovation with disciplined execution -- a winning formula that mops up the competition. Gina Imperato Extreme Callers Planet 1, a new personal satellite communications lets users make calls, receive faxes, and check email anywhere in the world, without requiring access to the local phone system. Gina Imperato Farm Team Spirit Captain Here are four ways that Keami Lewis makes sure that fun pays off. Rob Walker Financial Aid Mark Kantrowitz knows all the tricks when it comes to increasing your family's share of federal student aid. Eric Matson For Dad's Eyes Only Resources for Dad. Pamela Krueger Future Farmers of America Rosenbluth Travel's high-tech lab melds Epcot Center aesthetics with a focus group mentality. Rob Walker Have You Ever Dialed a Customer from Your Lab? You Will. At AT&T's Customer Expectations Lab, a team of PhD marketers connects people and technology. Steven Pearlstein Hot Company, Hard Choices Balancing working at a startup and raising your children. Pamela Krueger I Feel a Song Coming On Belle Linda Halpern is an accomplished cabaret singer who performs at least once a month. The rest of the time she coaches businesspeople on how to present more effectively. Eric Matson If a Consultant Flaps His Lips in Yokohama ... Consultant Debunking Unit Kate A. Kane Insurance Policies Steven Aldrich's tips for buying insurance on the Web. Eric Matson Japan Shuts Down Its Education Assembly Line And Keio University is gearing up a whole new curriculum. The model: personalized, digitized, globalized. Gale Eisenstodt John Doerr's Startup Manual If you could ask only one person for advice about starting a company or joining a startup, chances are you'd pick John Doerr. Michael S. Malone Light Me Up The right way to light a cigar. Peter Kaminsky Log On, Tune Up Update your software online. John R. Quain Making Flextime Work According to Catalyst, getting your company to agree to an alternative schedule is the easy part. Pamela Krueger Mortgage Points Warren Myer's tips for finding a low-priced mortgage. Eric Matson My Favorite Bookmarks - Harold Kester Picks from Encyclopedia Britannica VP Harold Kester. Fast Company My Favorite Bookmarks - Kathleen Flinn Picks from a Seattle Sidewalk producer. Fast Company Net Worth Insurance premiums. Taxes. Mortgage payments. College. Here's how to leverage the Web to tackle four of your toughest money problems. Eric Matson NetWork 7 The resolve you need to clean up your life. Bill Breen No Work, No Life, No Kidding! Forget about "balancing," your commitments at the office and your responsibilities at home. Here are 11 real-world strategies for struggling with the trade-offs. Pamela Kruger Now That We Have Your Complete Attention ... Here's Fast Company's eight-point program for presentations guaranteed to keep your listeners on the edge of their seats. Eric Matson Organization, Man! The business world is out of control. Your schedule and contacts can't be. John R. Quain PDAs Whatever happened to personal digital assistants (PDAs)? You remember -- those devices that turned your wonderful penmanship into gibberish, cost nearly as much as a new computer, and still couldn't store a spreadsheet. John R. Quain Phone Calls Make these three tools the talk of your office. Gina Imperato Power Reading Advertising exec Rosemarie Ryan shares her career core curriculum. Fast Company Quain's Top 10 Ten tips for organizing your digital desktop. John R. Quain Rosenbluth Rodeo The perils of the Rosenbluth Team Rodeo. Rob Walker Single Malt, One Smoke Preferred pairings. Peter Kaminsky Smoke Ring Introducing the cast of "My Dinner with Mondo Cigarro." Peter Kaminsky Smoker's Delight Our six hand-picked aficionados share a fine meal and swap the finer points of lighting up with style. Peter Kaminsky Tax Code TurboTax and TaxCut make filing taxes easier in about the same ways. Eric Matson The Meeting I Never Miss There are meetings that defy work, and meetings that define how you work. From Hollywood to Madison Avenue, we meet the people whose meetings make all the difference. Matt Goldberg The Only Thing That Matters At night in a Seattle bar, the world is alive with possibilities. Fred Moody The Spy Quiz A Spy in the House of Work The Spy Top Drawers The world of digital accessories. John R. Quain Two Billion Reasons Cisco's Sold on the Net CIO Peter Solvik has created the highest impact Web site in business today. Here's his formula for turning traffic into profit. Eric Matson Unit of One Anniversary Handbook We invited 30 leading figures from our first 6 issues to offer one new idea or one innovative practice that can make a difference to you. Fast Company What Kind of Dad Are You? Author James Levine argues that men can change a corporation's culture without jeopardizing their careers. Pamela Kruger What's Online at Cisco A guide to some of Cisco Connection Online's best features. Eric Matson What's the Best PIM? To put your life in order, you need more than addresses and appointments. You need a PIM -- a personal information manager. John R. Quain When Your Presentation Crashes ... Who You Gonna Call? Five tips on giving a catastrophe-free presentation from Geek Squad. Eric Matson Women on the Verge of a Power Breakthrough Forget the glass ceiling. A war cry, a strategy manual, and an economic treatise equip today's woman to handle the capitalist tool. Katharine Mieszkowski
