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Topic: David Lidsky

  
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Fast Company... on the Air!

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed May 5, 2004 at 6:30 PM

Fast Company senior editor David Lidsky will appear on ABC World News This Morning at 4:30 a.m. ET tomorrow, Thursday, May 6, to discuss JetBlue's attempt to go from niche airline to major industry player. I know it's early, but tune ...READ»

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Fast Company... on the Air!

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Mar 1, 2005 at 4:03 PM

Fast Company's David Lidsky will appear on ABC World News This Morning at 4:40 a.m., tomorrow, Wednesday, March 2. During his segment, he will discuss the 2005 Fast 50. Tune in if you're able!READ»

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Weight of the Nation

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 1:00 AM

Each year, the average American eats 16 pounds of fries, 23 pounds of pizza, and 26 pounds of candy. Let's just say the CDC may have bittenoff more than it can chew with this inaugural conference dedicated to combating the obesity ...READ»

BRANDING   |  1 comment

Welcome to the Liquid Brand Summit '08!

BY David Lidsky
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 12:57 AM

Hi, I'm David Lidsky, senior editor at Fast Company magazine. I'm excited to be participating in this year's Liquid Brand Summit. Over the next 10 days before the event itself, I'll be blogging here about news items that seem ...READ»

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It's Customers First Month At FastCompany.com

BY David Lidsky
Relevancy Score: 92
Fri Sep 1, 2006 at 4:01 PM

Hi and welcome to Customers First month at FastCompany.com. It seems like topic A around the watercooler these days has been how poorly we're being treated as customers lately. The irony, of course, is that companies talk more than ...READ»

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Grand Masters


Relevancy Score: 87
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:23 AM

Past Customer Service Champions share their customer service experiences.READ»

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A “Customer Experience Myth”… or cop out!


Relevancy Score: 87
Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 2:39 PM

Okay, in introducing me onto the Fast Company Customer First Blog, David Lidsky said he enjoyed a heated debate with me and thought I might provoke some discussion. So I don’t want to disappoint him. What David and I have ...READ»

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Land of the Lost

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 76
Wed May 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM

Watch out, Stan Lee! You're not the only old coot trying to cash in again on a decades-old creative burst. Seventies schlockmeisters Sid and Marty Krofft make their bid for Marvel Comics -- like cultural relevance via Will ...READ»

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Fitness Chain Starts to Sweat


Relevancy Score: 68
Fri Aug 11, 2006 at 1:50 PM

It’s not news that most Americans are wider than they ought to be. It’s also not news that they’re spending big money each year ($30 billion each year, according to the American Obesity Association) to lose weight and prevent ...READ»

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Newspaper Circulation Falling Faster and Faster


Relevancy Score: 66
Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 12:20 PM

Gone are the days of the smoking-jacketed man with his armchair, pipe and evening paper. The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported a 2.8 percent decline for weekday circulation and 3.4 percent decline in Sunday circulation for the ...READ»

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Toy Fair '09

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 62
Sun Feb 15, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Get your kung-fu grips ready: Action figures are back! "They were buyers' number-one request," says Marian Bossard, a VP at the Toy Industry Association, the fair's host. If that strikes you as kind of low tech for kids who are wired ...READ»

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Bright-Sided

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 57
Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM

This book could be nick-named "The Hangover." Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich saw America binge on the power of positive thinking, and now tries to piece together what the hell happened. In the process, she dissects ...READ»

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The Tall Book

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 51
Thu May 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM

If you're a man taller than 6'3" or a woman over 5'9", meet your new bible. Cohen, 6'3", gives talls a pep talk, highlighting research that shows they'll make an additional $789 per inch per year over ...READ»

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Why We Make Mistakes

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 50
Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Why We Make Mistakes turns a ton of academic research about how our brains can work against us into a string of cocktail-party nuggets about dum-dums. Make no mistake, this is breezy stuff: You'll learn why French music in a wine ...READ»

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Fat Company


Relevancy Score: 48
Wed Sep 29, 2004 at 3:55 PM

Today, after a nice light lunch of sushi, I was walking back to the office and happened upon the Zocalo Taco-Eating Contest, another event organized by the same guys who emceed the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, so adroitly ...READ»

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NanoMed

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 46
Sun Mar 1, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Within the next couple of years, "we'll start seeing the benefits of nanotechnology in health care," Dr. Paras N. Prasad says. The University of Buffalo prof will present his big, small vision in the keynote at the sixth ...READ»

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More Mergers

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 43
Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 12:37 PM

So, Verizon is buying MCI. And this is just weeks after SBC Communications decided to buy AT&T. And many people are feeling the affect of Cingular (a joint venture of SBC Communications and BellSouth Corporation) buying AT&T ...READ»

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In Cheap We Trust

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 41
Mon Sep 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM

America may be 233 years old, but really, she's a teenage girl with bulimia. In this fascinating account of our nation's binge-and-purge cycle of spending and sacrifice, Weber, a second-generation cheapskate -- her father reuses a tea ...READ»

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Read: In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-The-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 38
Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 9:10 PM

A tragic plane crash, a drug-addicted scion, a bitter lawsuit--these juicy ingredients should make for a tasty corporate drama. Alas, they don't, because the company is In-N-Out Burger, and seemingly nothing can derail the beloved ...READ»

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Watch List 9/07

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 38
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

The books, conferences, and people to look for this month.READ»

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The Three Keys to Change

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 36
Fri Jan 5, 2007 at 1:56 PM

This week, we at Fast Company have been celebrating the release of Alan Deutschman's book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life. The book started with a very widely-read article titled, "Change or Die." We ...READ»

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Googled, by Ken Auletta

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 35
Tue Nov 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM

"If we solve search," Google cofounder Larry Page told a class at Stanford in 2002, "that means you can answer any question. Which means you can do basically anything." Googled tells the story of the search rocket's relentless ...READ»

CULTURE   |  22 comments

Counterpoint: NBC's "The Office"


Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 2:15 PM

I'm going to come right out and disagree with my colleague (and editor) David Lidsky on the American version of the workplace sitcom, "The Office." Simply put, I think BBC's was better - and there are some analogues to be found in ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Brain Calisthenics

BY David Lidsky
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:49 AM

We road-test three exercises designed to stretch the imagination.READ»

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Between The Lines

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:44 AM

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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