Features

• Third Age - Do You Belong?

  How Third Age builds community in cyberspace by first building community in their workplace.

• It's Story Time at Monster Board

  Meeting I Never Miss

• The War for Talent

  According to a yearlong study conducted by McKinsey Co., the most important corporate resource over the next 20 years will be talent. It's also the resource in shortest supply. Are you ready to fight for your fair share?

• My Favorite Bookmarks - Graham Spencer

  Picks from the CTO of Excite.

• Set Phasers to Stun!

  Are you ready for a high-tech, high-noon game of laser tag? Here's your chance to battle it out with your coworkers, to come to the rescue of your teammates, and best of all, to ice your boss!

• Welcome to Video Game University

  Better start studying! "We do not compensate effort," says school founder Claude Comair. "We compensate results."

• Streamline Delivers the Goods

  Two things can be said with certainty about business on the Web: Companies are playing for real stakes, and winning companies are playing by different rules.

• Advertisers in Issue 16

  Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.

• Action Item - Talk Back to Me

  Gadgets and applications that make your computer more human.

• The Art of Computing, Naturally

  From the beginning, computing has been an unnatural act. But now technology is emerging that makes your machine more human.

• Quaking at Netscape

  Wanna pick a fight? Check out Id Software's Quake.

• These Cards Mean Business

  Introducing multimedia business cards.

• Out of Juice? Recharge!

  Feeling burned out? Meet the men and women of Pixar Animation Studios. They're under the kind of pressure that would drain anybody's battery. Here are their screen-tested strategies for staying animated.

• Action Item - You're Doomed

  DOOM: the mother of all multi-player 3-D games.

• Redesigning the Design Business

  Sure, Palo Alto Design Group designs winning products. But it's also winning the design game -- by reinventing the rules.

• The Talent Issue

  A letter from the founding editors.

• Millennial Behavior

  Report from the Futurist

• This Advice Sounds Fishy

  Consultant Debunking Unit

• Chief Underpants Officer

  Job Titles of the Future

• Six Ways to Become A Smart Buyer

  Just as in the stock market, there are good and bad investments in the talent market. Here are six tips to make you a smarter buyer.

• The Talent Market

  If you think that the stock market is where the action is today, you're missing out on the hottest, most important market in the new economy.

• These Airports Turn Downtime into Work Time

  These three airport facilities will help you make the most of your time - all the time.

• News, Views, and Web Tools

  The trouble with Fast Company is that I tear out so many articles to send to friends, I wind up destroying the magazine.

• Broadcast.com Boosts Its Signal

  Less than three years after its creation, broadcast.com is the leading source of streaming-media programming.

• The Best Defense: Part 2

  How to headhunter-proof your company.

• War Is Hell Too

  U.S. Army Ranger describes his training for leadership

• Hire Today, Gone Tomorrow?

  Tough question: How can you hold onto your best people? Honest answer: You probably can't. The real goal is to keep great people working with you, even after they've stopped working for you.

• Bend, Fold, Mutilate

  Meet the new Rocky II from Amrel Systems.

• Action Item - Gimme A Break!

  Products and tips to recharge your energy levels.

• Two from the Heartland

  Craig and Patricia Neal have a goal: Create companies where people can bring their whole selves to work, where they can integrate their work into their lives.

• Road Rules - Rule 1

  Don't eat where you sleep.

• Don't Have a Cow - Kill One!

  How Mitel killed sacred cows.

• Leadership Is Hell

  Welcome to leadership -- ranger style.

• The New Spirit of Work

  Richard Barrett preaches the gospel of spirituality in the workplace - with a difference. His approach is pragmatic, quantifiable, and all business.

• You Are Not Sleepy!

  Maybe you don't need more sleep, just better sleep.

• Nortel Switches Cities

  What makes a great city? How to transform the vast, empty factory - an anonymous-looking site formerly used for manufacturing telephone switches - into an attractive office space?

• This Company Doesn't Brake for (Sacred) Cows

  At Mitel, the way to go faster - and to do better - is to stop spending time on things that don't add value.

• Dressed to Kill

  Gear for laser tag at Lazer Park.

• Shadow Boxes

  Creative expression through shadow boxes.

• The Best Defense: Part I

  What to do when a valued employee quits.

• Are You Burned Out?

  There's stress, and then there's STRESS.

• Growing Smart

  Unit of One

• Design for Design's Sake

  Jim Sacherman's Palo Alto Design Group (PADG) sees importance of continually designing products which may have no hope of generating revenue.

• Small Is Usable

  This cell phone is smaller, lighter, and easier to use.

• Nine Steps to Boost Your Stock Price

  Nine pointers for taking yourself public.

• 35 Ways to Land a Job Online

  There's only one place to start your next job search - on the Web. Here's the ultimate guide to writing a great online resume, posting it on the best sites, and choosing the right job.

• Grounds For Dismissal

  A Spy in the House of Work

• Talent Futures

  How the market works and how it's likely to change

• Spirit by the Numbers

  How would your company score? Richard Barrett conducts workshops to detect levels of consciousness within companies.