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Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

The Hours

| by Margaret Heffernan

"Your people do turn up for work, don't they?" I was once asked by the chairman of my company. He was peeved. In his own office, he'd...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

The Best of Both Worlds

| by Linda Tischler

To add additional context to Linda Tischler's feature...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Feminine Mystique

| by Fara Warner

The Nike story -- from the shoes to the ads to the stores -- has always been fueled by a healthy dose of testosterone. So as the leaders of the...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Carving Out a Niche

| by Anni Layne Rodgers

Roberta Rodger is a fiery 24-year-old with a penchant for mad half pipes and backcountry powder. She's also a calculating businesswoman, plotting...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Sister Cities

| by Fast Company

In this age of economic distress and emotional despair, leaders need to demonstrate more strength and compassion than ever before. As company...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Stay on Track

| by Anni Layne

Rounding turn four at roughly three times the interstate speed limit, Sarah Fisher heard the command from her pit crew crackle distinctly through...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Survival Tactic: Recognize Your Female Talent

| by Nancy Einhart

Most companies recognize that corporate America needs to usher more women into its upper ranks. They just don't understand why or how female...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Report From the Past - Jane Harper

| by Anni Layne

As competitors like Gateway and Hewlett-Packard sag under the weight of fourth-quarter sales slumps, IBM is standing stock-straight and enjoying...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Survival Tactic: Recognize Your Female Talent, Part Two

| by Nancy Einhart

Most companies recognize that corporate America needs to usher more women into its upper ranks. They just don't understand why or how female...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Susan Defife

| by Liz Zack

Susan Defife heads up the leading source of news and community on women in business -- Womenconnect.com....

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Stephanie Allen

| by Erika Germer

After amassing two decades of experience in leadership and program development, Stephanie Allen took the plunge in 1989 by founding her own...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Melissa Moss

| by Marla Abramson

Melissa Moss is president of the Women's...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Carolyn Stradley

| by Liz Zack

Carolyn Stradley has overcome some unbelievably debilitating hardships. She was orphaned in a North Georgia shack at the age of 11, homeless in...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Cec Ortiz

| by Liz Zack

Cec Ortiz was a political appointment for the governor of Colorado, heading his small business development centers around the country and later...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Melissa Bradley

| by Liz Zack

Melissa Bradley got her MBA, took a job in corporate America, and hated every hour she spent there. Then, she decided to design her future. She...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Athena, CEO

| by Fast Company

The story of every late 20th Century businesswoman began in 1848, when two bold and brassy suffragists drafted a declaration of independence for...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Open Debate

| by Leslie Bennetts and Vivian Steir Rabin

Leslie Bennetts Author, The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?; contributing editor at Vanity...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Fast Talk: Night Stalker

| by Alyssa Danigelis

Jill Leiderman Executive Producer, Jimmy Kimmel Live Los Angeles, California Leiderman,...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

The Wordsmith

| by Linda Tischler

Unless you're part of the clubby graphic-design fraternity, you may never have heard of Paula Scher, but it's nearly...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

The Rules of Engagement

| by Linda Tischler

Be clear about role definition. Which things are each partner going to handle, and which parts are shared?...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Copy This

| by Keith H. Hammonds

Anne M. Mulcahy Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corp. Mulcahy, 51, was named president of Xerox in May 2000, and CEO...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Barbara Kux

| by William Taylor

Changing Europe One Manager at a Time There's the story of how, for weeks, angry protesters from IG Metall, the powerful German trade...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Bull Rider

| by Paul B. Brown

Amy Butte Chief Financial Officer, New York Stock Exchange This year's biggest deal on Wall Street? It's the...

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

Feedback

| by Fast Company Staff

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes "Making Change" (May 2005) is spot on....

Fast Company Feature | December 2007 | 1 recommendation

The Interpreter

| by Jennifer Reingold

Claudia Kotchka is holding the secret to understanding design at Procter & Gamble in her palm. It's not a P&G product but a tin of Altoids, the...

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