Topic: Cirque du Soleil Inc.

The U.S. and Canada Fight Over Who's the Biggest Joke of the 2010 Expo

With pavilions mired in budget controversies, laughable design, and, yes, circus clowns, the US and Canada are set to be the embarrassments of Shanghai 2010.READ»

Dear Jeffrey Deitch: Free Ideas for Your New Museum

The New York gallerist is bringing his knack for spectacle to Los Angeles. To welcome him to town, we asked a dozen experts what Deitch-produced events they'd most like to see at MOCA.READ»

Believing Las Vegas: Is Jim Murren's Cultural Vision for CityCenter Just Another Mirage?

The MGM Mirage CEO is attempting to pull off a grand illusion not even David Copperfield would try: Luring Las Vegas tourists into CityCenter with the promise of spectacle and sending them out civilized.READ»

Silver, Ice, and Bouncy Superheroes: Las Vegas' CityCenter by the Numbers

Mega-development CityCenter is big...really big. As the "city within a city" opens its anchor property, Aria, today, we run the numbers.READ»

The Star-Studded Design of Vegas' $8.5 Billion CityCenter

This week will see the opening of Vegas' $8.5 billion CityCenter, the most massive collaboration of famous architects in recent memory.READ»

Behind the Next Fitness Craze: Reebok's Jukari Fit to Fly

Reebok's Katrin Ley developed a new trapeze-based fitness routine with Cirque du Soleil called Jukari Fit to Fly and launched it, along with two new related apparel lines, in 14 cities around the world this past spring.READ»

How Allegiant Plays from Peoria

     ALLEGIANT EXPEDIA FLIGHT Nonstop, with reasonably good departure times for the direct flight each way (midday Friday, Monday morning). Connection hell. Northwest, with stopovers in ...READ»

• Heard of Allegiant Air? Why It's the Nation's Most Profitable Airline

Work/Life: "If this is a Senior moment, put me down now."

Spotted downunder during "Seniors Week". This billboard What's the first thought that enters your head? Compare it with the reaction from three of my customers, all in their 60's and 70's: 1. "Shoot me ...READ»

"Business is War"??? - Beware the Pyrrhic Victory (and Some Other Observations On Business & Recruiting)

In doing my morning cup-of-coffee rounds through some sites and blogs I greatly respect, I came across the following HBR article by by Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku, and J. Keith Murnighan: "When Winning Is ...READ»

How An Independently Owned African-American Circus Made It To The Big Top

With Nintendo, MTV, and MySpace all competing for the attention of America's youth, along comes a live show like UniverSoul Circus that tries to set them free with its unique re-imagining of live family entertainment.READ»

<em>Fast Company</em>'s Linda Tischler Wins the Deadline Club Award for Best Magazine Feature

New York, May 25, 2006 - Fast Company announced today that Senior Writer, Linda Tischler, has been award the 2006 Deadline Club Award for best magazine feature. The article, "Join the Circus," was in the July 2005 issue and gave an ...READ»

Talent Pool

Making their mark from New York to Tokyo. Fourteen talents who are driving design forward.READ»

Global Fast Cities

They speak English, and they have the right mix of technology and tolerance to attract talent. They're the international cities competing with the United States for the global talent pool.READ»

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Join the Circus

In 21 years, Cirque du Soleil has grown from a funky band of street performers into a half-billion-dollar global company. It's a high-wire act of smart risk-taking, innovating around the clock, and staying uncomfortable.READ»

Without a Net

As a band of former circus performers, Cirque du Soleil executives are uncommonly comfortable taking strategic risks. Here's how they turn in a high-flying performance.READ»

David Rockwell Has a Lot of Nerve

This was the year that business lost its nerve. Innovation? Imagination? Who could afford them? But David Rockwell, the design visionary behind some of New York's hottest restaurants, the Academy Awards theater, and even the sets for the Broadway smash Hairspray, keeps on taking chances -- and building great spaces with a point of view.READ»

Strategic Innovation: The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.READ»

It's About Time

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Life Is a Juggling Act

Sometimes it's your schedule, sometimes it's flaming torches. Michael Moschen, the world's greatest juggler, shows you how to keep all those balls in the air.READ»

Ten Things You Can Learn From a Comic Strip

CEO DAD'S TUESDAY TIRADE When I’m not (literally) drawn into the panels of one of Tom Stern’s CEO DAD strips, I spend a lot of time hanging out, thinking about my lot as a fictional character. It stinks in a lot of ways. I ...READ»

A Reintroduction: From Experiential to Entertainment Marketing

Way back last year I introduced myself as the new Experiential Marketing blogger at Fast Company. Though I'm fascinated by the topic, I also found this approach taking me in an overly academic direction as I attempted follow-up ...READ»

Kudos to Fast Company

Fast Company and senior writer Linda Tischler have received a great accolade: The Deadline Club (the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists), named Linda's story about Cirque du Soleil, "Join the Circus," the ...READ»

Fast Company's Best Books of 2005

Forgive us for blowing past the new year before getting up what may be the last best of 2005 list you'll read, but we hope it's worth the wait. We were hibernating with a collection of 1950's advertising satires and lost track of ...READ»

Strategic Reads

This week's "cover story" on the Web focuses on Cirque du Soleil's strategic approach to business. In a sidebar to that piece, Renee Mauborgne details guidelines from the book Blue Ocean Strategy. If you'd welcome more ideas along ...READ»