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5 Simple Tools That Make Email Suck Less

BY Amber Mac | 04-26-2012 | 7:15 AM | LEADERSHIP

Ever wish you could "boomerang" important messages back to your inbox? Want to get better at putting faces to all those names that fly by every day? Do that and more with these cool plug-ins and tools that help you make sense of your ever-clogged inbox. READ MORE›

Work Smart: Disrupt Your Inbox

BY Scott Belsky | 11-27-2011 | 3:32 PM | WORK/LIFE

If you're looking for a quick way to improve productivity for yourself as well as those around you, look no further than your inbox.READ MORE›

Reader's Feedback: October 2011

BY FAST COMPANY STAFF | 11-07-2011 | 1:01 PM | MAGAZINE

From left: Mariel Strauch, Tara Jasinski, Ada Ng, and Alix Berger deliver fresher, healthier food to their Cornell campus.| Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien Mastering Design "This issue is extremely on point with what I do and the ...READ MORE›

Reader's Feedback: September 2011

BY FAST COMPANY STAFF | 10-03-2011 | 11:48 AM | MAGAZINE

David Lauren has built a media brand within his father's $13 billion fashion company.| Photo by Franccois Dischinger A Creative Fashion "Our intention was to build a media brand." That is the key here and an outstanding insight ...READ MORE›

Reader's Feedback: June 2011

BY Fast Company Staff | 07-26-2011 | 3:29 PM | MAGAZINE

Creative Surge People like Sal Khan are so close to saving the world's working poor ("The 100 Most Creative People In Business 2011"). The greatest obstruction to overcoming economic inequality in our time is the education ...READ MORE›

Inbox: February 2011

BY Fast Company Staff | 04-01-2011 | 2:00 PM | MAGAZINE

Getting Schooled "How to Spend $100 Million to Really Save Education" is filled with gems. However, as an independent school educator, I think it misses what has to happen but can't, despite millions of dollars: a plate-tectonic ...READ MORE›

Re: April 2011

BY Fast Company Staff | 04-01-2011 | 2:00 PM | MAGAZINE

Brand Loyalty Kudos to Fast Company for having the courage to buck conventional publishing norms to explore a vital issue facing businesses in the digital age: the integration of branding and marketing communications within ...READ MORE›

Google Priority Inbox Soothes Email-Overload Stress

BY Dan Nosowitz | 08-31-2010 | 2:14 AM | MAGAZINE

Too. much. email. And it's not always the kind of flat-out junk that can be zipped to a spam folder, either. Gmail's new Priority Inbox senses what email is important to you, and sequesters it for quick viewing.READ MORE›

Work Smart: How to Power Through a Mountain of Email

BY Gina Trapani | 06-01-2010 | 10:43 AM | WORK/LIFE

It's your first day back at work after a week-long vacation and you're staring down an email inbox stuffed with 1,600 unread messages. Or--forget vacation--you've just been busy outside the inbox and now you've got a mountain of ...READ MORE›

Work Smart: Conquering Your Email Inbox

BY Gina Trapani | 02-02-2010 | 8:30 AM | CAREERS

How many messages are in your e-mail inbox right now? A few dozen? It's probably more like a few hundred, or even a few thousand. We all get too much email. Here's how to conquer your inbox.READ MORE›

Less Input and More "Innerput"

BY Dr. Jim Taylor | 01-13-2010 | 2:16 PM | WORK/LIFE

The Web, the Internet, and all of the new media that has sprung from them , have been a boon to the information age, making information available at our fingertips instantaneously. The sheer volume of information now accessible on line is staggering. Information continues to become more available to more people in less time; from web sites to email to RSS feeds to Twitter, we have input at an unprecedented rate and volume. For all its benefits, an unfortunate consequence of this torrent of information is that our “mental inbox” becomes overloaded. With our minds spilling over with information, our primary motivation is to empty it as quickly as possible. READ MORE›