Features

• Method to the Madness

  At Trilogy Software Inc., the rules are work hard, play hard.

• Voices of SAS

  When a company takes care of its employees, the gesture is returned in a big way.

• It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure!

  Meet a new kind of Web geek. Randy Lagman, of Lands' End, is a virtual adventurer who has traded servers for snowshoes and hard drives for handguns. "The folks we work with are a different breed."

• Digital Heaven

  Digitize your life with Hitachi's M2 multimedia recorder.

• Insight and Futuring Manager

  Job Titles of the Future: Amy King Schindler

• Publish or Perish!

  The jeers and cheers of Digital Storytelling Bootcamp.

• This Is the Year I'll...

  ...stick to my New Year's resolutions. How? By resolving to use the Web. It's filled with tools, tips, and support groups that can help you break the cycle of broken promises.

• What's New, What's Not

  Unit of One

• Get off Your Butt when You're on the Go!

  Fast Company sizes up the exercise facilities of five hotels.

• Freedom from Frenzy

  A letter from the founding editors.

• My Day in SAS Day Care

  The only thing better than being an adult at SAS is being a kid.

• Tuck and Cover

  This contraption will keep your desk clutter- and cord-free

• Commando Briefing

  A crash course for conference commandos.

• From Jobs to Projects

  Career guru Barbara Moses wants you to grab hold of your projects to grab hold of your career.

• The Power of Words

  Fernando Flores was Chile's minister of finance -- and, later, a political prisoner. Now he teaches companies how to use assessments and commitments to transform the way they do business. The outcome: executives who speak and act with intention.

• Wanna Score? Dish the Rock!

  At Never Too Late Basketball Camp, it's never too late to learn to be a team player. If you want to win at hoops, it's not enough to have game -- you gotta have team.

• Insanity Inc.

  Trilogy Software Inc. is one of the fastest-growing software companies around. It's also one of the craziest companies around -- a place where new employees cram all day, work all night, and take a break by hopping on a plane to play roulette in Vegas.

• What's Your Story?

  Tired of delivering the same old business presentations in the same old way? Then join the Digital Storytelling movement, and take a lesson from its founder, Dana Winslow Atchley III. You may never use slides again.

• How to Make Commitments

  Promises count. Learn how to keep the ones you make.

• How to Make Assessments

  Opinions matter. Make yours heard.

• Sanity Inc.

  SAS Institute Inc. is the most important software company you've never heard of. It's also the sanest company in America -- a place where employees can eat lunch with their kids, everyone gets unlimited sick days, and the gate clangs shut at 6 p.m.

• Road Rules - Rule 6

  Always be on (local) time

• Interview with a Headhunter

  In the eat-or-be-eaten world of job hunting, if you misfire, you're dead. Here's how to hunt like a headhunter -- and turn your next job interview into a sure kill.

• Advertisers in Issue 21

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

• The Conference-Commando Field Manual

  It smells like learning! Don't think of your next conference as a company-sponsored vacation. Think of it as an assault on the future. A collection of battle-scarred veterans offer their secrets on how to become a conference commando. We register at dawn!

• Consulting By The Numbers

  Can You Crack the Consulting Formula?

• Walk This Way

  These shoes were made for snow-walking.

• Wanted: Rob Lilleness

  What it takes to attract the best talent.

• Make Change, Minimize Distractions

  What's Your Problem?

• Monster World

  It's HUGE! The Monster Board's 75,000-square-foot office is big enough to house all of the company's employees -- plus 2.5 million Web visitors per month! -- in a space that accommodates virtual meetings, purposeful teams, and individual identity.

• Time for New Products

  To ensure new ideas don't get lost, follow Executive Risk's new plan.

• Time Travels

  Report from the Futurist

• The Big Meltdown

  A Spy in the House of Work

• These Executives Love Risk

  "You hardly ever see 'entrepreneurial' and 'insurance' in the same sentence," says Stephen Sills, founder and CEO of Executive Risk. "We want people to feel the pulse of this organization."

• Raging Inexorable Thunder-Lizard Evangelist for Change

  Job Titles of the Future: Brian Yeoman

• Wanna Move Up? Act Up!

  Career counselor Barbara Moses wants you to become a career activist: "Every aspect of your work can be changed for the better."