Many of you, like me, went to great schools with very talented people. We have a tremendous amount to be thankful for; our health, our freedom, our families and the God-given talents with which we were born. We’re morally obligated ...READ»
Given the seemingly endless negative economic news that we are currently absorbing every day, Bridge Partners LLC has been looking for a silver-lining – and we found it in the fact that the country is making great progress when it ...READ»
Given the seemingly endless negative economic news that we are currently absorbing every day, Bridge Partners LLC has been looking for a silver-lining – and we found it in the fact that the country is making great progress when ...READ»
In an endorsement that will not be welcomed by Mr McCain's flagging campaign, the group said that if al-Qaeda wants to exhaust the USmilitarily and economically, the "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate is the ...READ»
OK...I am not really one who will rock the boat a lot (maybe I do when you ask people who know me ...) but from what I have seen in the last few days really opened my eyes.
Being in Real Estate I am very interested what is ...READ»
The debate is over and the group is back on a conference call, ready to be debriefed by the Clinton campaign. There's a surprise guest scheduled to talk to the national throng, but a fairly heady debate breaks out while this group ...READ»
A controversial energy bill hit the Senate floor last week and remains contentious, despite concessions from automobile makers and lobbyists. The bill aims (among other things) to raise fuel economy standards - from 27.5 miles a ...READ»
In hindsight, the cover line of Fast Company's "The Fast 50" issue (March) says it all. California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Green Ultimatum Will Create Huge New Markets Across California".
Key word: across
California is ...READ»
Cotton farmers in Africa work their fields by hand, without the tractors and irrigation systems of their wealthier Western counterparts. If there's a drought, there's no cotton. If monkeys or worms destroy their crops, there's no ...READ»
Here's an amusing piece of information: The United States Mint released into circulation what is believed to be at least 50,000 new George Washington dollar coins that are missing their emblematic inscription of "In God We Trust." ...READ»
In the current issue of New York, Kurt Andersen laments America's age of lame-duckism, "in which the discredited and obsolete and totally over shuffle around in the limelight for years after their sell-by dates."
Andersen artfully ...READ»
Last night, I went to see "An Unreasonable Man," a new documentary about Ralph Nader. What, you might ask, does he have to do with Fast Company magazine? Quite a bit, actually. Nader's detractors pelt him with insults, some of his ...READ»
When are candidates going to realize that the Internets is going to make or break them in elections? In the past week, there have been two prime examples of what happens when one candidate gets it and the other doesn't.
Now more ...READ»
In the public realm, that is. We dwell so much on innovation in Corporate America that it's easy to overlook the countless people applying ideas and passion to make change in civic life. We feature these folks often in Fast ...READ»
When the World Summit on the Information Society ended, just a few weeks ago, the Internet was still governed by ICANN, an American agency. Yes, the Internet Governance Forum was announced during the summit, but that international ...READ»
Does the internet belong to America, or to the world? That is the essential question being asked by the UN. They are seeking to have the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that governs internet ...READ»
The U.S. government is changing Daylight Savings Time. And now they are messing with seconds. The government wants to eliminate the leap seconds that are added every few years to keep time accurate to the earth's rotation. They ...READ»
This morning I had the somewhat special opportunity to go to the U.N. to hear the Secretary General Kofi Annan present "The Millennium Goals Report" to the media. Little did I realize that I'd end up far more in awe of the physical ...READ»
His product got the kind of attention that most companies only dream of, splashed across front pages and on TV news around the world. Robert Dyck, the founder of CODE Inc., in Ottawa, is responsible for the indelible purple ink that ...READ»
I have to take issue with yesterday's entry from my friend and colleague Bill Breen. If you live in Boston or New York or Washington, you've heard any number of variations over the last three days (amid the din of collective wailing ...READ»
