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Article | June 23, 2008 3:35 pm
When the founding fathers of the New York Stock Exchange (and, yes, they were all men) gathered under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street, in lower Manhattan, 216 years ago,...
Article | May 09, 2008 4:05 pm
A CEO modeling underwear. An expletive-spouting billionaire with a tiny lapdog and a Dr. Evil air. Elk hot dogs, house music, and 714 billion cups of coffee....
Article | April 11, 2008 10:45 am
"When it rains, you get wet." I use that expression with my sons if they complain about the weather turning bad. I found myself using the same words a few days ago while...
Article | March 18, 2008 2:55 pm
Taking risks is at the core of every successful business: To create and innovate -- and outdo the competition -- you need to delve into new, often uncomfortable situations. Yet...
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Blog Post: From The Magazine Editor | by Robert Safian | February 29, 2008 12:52 pm
Comment: They do have a terrific capacity for creating lustworthy products. The Air is just so . . . appealing. It has its shortcomings--tradeoffs, really--but when our art director brought into the office...
Member Blog | 0 recommendations | February 26, 2008 5:17 pm
At the magazine, the choice to put Google at the top of our "most innovative companies" list was almost a fait accompli. No one seriously argued for any other player to head...
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Comment: At the magazine, the choice to put Google at the top of our "most innovative companies" list was almost a fait accompli. No one seriously argued for any other player to head the list. Check out...
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Comment: Thanks for the Oracle suggestion. I'm the editor of Fast Company magazine, and you're quite right that the concept of "fast" or "innovative" is a squishy one. You're also right that, in the...
Article | February 14, 2008 6:35 pm
I sometimes look up at an airplane flying overhead and envision what its occupants would look like if the fuselage were see-through: Hundreds of people, sitting in straight...
Fast Talk | February 08, 2008 11:09 am
A. Apple is certainly innovative, and has often been accused of arrogance. The challenge with all Apple discussions is to seperate the fact from the passion (some may call it hype) that surrounds the...
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