Features

• Firemen and Strategists

  One Click Faster: Jennifer Tejada of i2 Technologies

• Jobs for Life

  Ernst Young is a cautious firm that has embarked on a bold experiment to address deeply personal questions about work. The goal, say the people behind these programs, is to create jobs for life.

• Grown-Up Startup

  At Calico Commerce Inc., you will find a staff of Silicon Valley veterans -- a little older and a lot wiser -- building a company that's determined not to make the same old startup mistakes.

• Change Agency

  David Sable and his colleagues at YR 2.1 want to create a new, bug-free version of an old-style advertising firm.

• Time to Slow Down?

  The thinker: Stewart Brand, founder, the "Whole Earth Catalog." The setting: the Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, California. The question: how can we make the world safe for Internet time?

• Change Course - That's His Message to the Navy

  Barry Frew is turning high-powered admirals into mavericks. His course at the Naval Postgraduate School combines technology, rock climbing, and "war stories" delivered by some of Silicon Valley's elite.

• Meetings Like Dad Used to Make

  Meeting I Never Miss

• Living Dangerously - Issue 34

  "Girl-gang members are the new mistresses of misrule."

• She's on a (Turnaround) Mission from God

  Sister Barbara Rogers took over a struggling, tradition-bound school and turned it into a thriving, forward-looking institution. Her secret? "We chose the approach with the highest possible risk."

• Revenge of the Nerds

  Has there ever been a better time to be a techie? These sites are designed to help programmers, Web designers, and other IT professionals get great jobs, find cool projects, and stay in the loop.

• Beginner's Luck

  In the Internet casino, the name of the game is IPO, and the players are looking to improve their odds. Meet five high rollers who think that their systems will help them hit the jackpot.

• From Survival to " Thrival"

  Report from the Futurist

• Turschlussangst

  A Spy in the House of Work

• Prepare to Be Pinged

  Click Here: iPing

• Faster Company

  The leaders of IBM's 100,000-person IT staff knew that their team had many strengths. But the team also had one big weakness: It was too slow. Thus was born a group of change agents dedicated to speeding up Big Blue.

• Virtual Voice Mail

  Click Here: Pagoo.com

• Smile, Everyone! It's Time for Your Computer Training

  An unlikely sentiment? Not to the folks at Happy Computers, a London-based training firm that teaches everything from database technology to html. Its motto: "Experiment. Ask questions. Make mistakes."

• Fast Guy, Slow Industry

  Meet the Ambassador of eSpeed.

• Sitting Ovation

  A stirring round of applause for Steelcase's Leap chair.

• Fax It? Forget It!

  Does any hardware device feel slower and clunkier than the fax machine? Here's how to be 100% fax-free.

• The Freeplay Group - Changing the Rules?

  Report from the Past

• Get on the (Web) Bus

  Career Move: T. Scott Kirksey

• Change Agent - Issue 34

  "The fact is, the wild oscillations in our business life will continue to get wilder and wilder, probably forever."

• Leadership Ensemble

  How do the musicians of Orpheus get to Carnegie Hall? They practice -- not just their music, but a radical approach to leadership that has become a compelling metaphor for business.

• Advertisers in Issue 34

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

• Online, Offline, All the Time

  Bet the Company

• Road Rules - Rule No. 19

  Get a room with a (point of) view.

• The Change-Agent Blues

  Face the Music gives voice to the laments of change agents and knowledge workers.

• Swatch This

  The Swatch Group: tearing down the time-zone barrier.

• Do You Know What Time It Is?

  Setting a new global time standard.

• Sound All Around

  For crystal-clear multimedia presentations.

• How Fast Are You?

  A letter from the founding editors.

• Decisions Are in the Details

  The details that go into a flawless Orpheus performance.

• My Favorite Bookmarks - Karen Lake

  Picks from the founder and CEO of StrategyWeek.com

• Hands-On Design

  OXO International's handiwork: a wall of gloves.

• Museums with a Mission

  What's the purpose of a museum? The old answer: to house and to display dead stuff -- the museum as mausoleum. The new answer: according to designer Ralph Appelbaum, to experience life and learning. He creates museums with a mission.

• Digital Yenta

  Job Titles of the Future

• Speed Writer

  Introducing the 60-second novelist.

• The Vision Thing

  See into the great beyond with EL binoculars.

• Life/Work - Issue 34

  "What happens next is that people -- especially women -- burn out and end up leaving."

• Delayed? Don't Despair

  Where to eat, shop, and entertain yourself at a few of the world's busiest airports.

• My Favorite Bookmarks - Nancy Regent

  Picks from the managing editor of Hoover's Online.

• Don't Burn Out!

  Unit of One

• Fast Factoids

  A few fast facts.

• We all go to the same place. Let us go there slowly.

  Carlo Petrini and the 60,000 members of the slow food movement don't just want to change how we eat. They want to change how we live.

• Portals for the People

  We've moved beyond email, beyond intranets, to the next digital force that will reshape how people work and how they relate to their companies. Oliver Muoto, cofounder of Epicentric Inc., explains the rise of B2E Web portals.

• Fast Fixes, Loyal Customers

  My Smartest Mistake: Mark Gainey, president, Kana Communications.

• Digital Matters - Issue 34

  "A few years from now, we'll look back on dotcom mania as a model of investment sanity and prudence."

• Consultants - Get off the Gravy Train!

  Consultant Debunking Unit

• Listen Up!

  You can't learn what your customers want if you don't know how to listen to them. And listening smart is harder than it sounds. Here's our crank-up-the-volume guide to building a listening organization.

• Inside the Metaphor Business

  Minicourses on leadership from Orpheus -- a conductorless orchestra.

• Nerds Need Apply

  The scoop on five nerd sites.

• You can do anything - but not everything.

  David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace -- without wearing yourself down.

• How to Speed Up Your Startup

  When it comes to launching Internet companies, you can't be fast enough. Here are lessons in speed from a leading VC, the founder of an e-business incubator, and a team of anthropologists studying work and life in Silicon Valley.

• Life of a (Digital) Salesman

  Fast Function: Sales

• Good News - It's a Small World

  Who cares where our cars, computers, or clothes are made? If December's "Battle of Seattle" is any indication, lots of people do. A book by two savvy journalists makes the case for globalization.

• Run Fast, But Don't Miss a Step

  What's Your Problem?

• We are literally trying to stop time.

  Track coach John Smith teaches the fastest runners in the world how to go even faster. Here's what he can teach you.

• Adventures in Polymerland

  A little-known unit inside General Electric, the world's best-known big company, is setting the standard for digital transformation -- and helping Jack Welch teach the rest of his company how to get with the Web program.

• These Lawyers Are Red Hot

  An Atlanta-based law firm is changing the game -- and the image -- of a very traditional profession. From how it compensates its employees to how it charges its clients, Red Hot Law Group is just that: red hot.

• Director of Emerging Thought

  Job Titles of the Future