Topic: Denver

What Organizations Can Learn From the Baseball Playoffs

Five lessons to succeed and win in the postseason.READ»

McDonald's Design Heritage

The fast-food giant has built its success on ideas that bubble up from anywhere.READ»

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A One-Stop Shop for Cancer Detection

A new diagnostic chip may save time--and lives--by using two cancer-detecting techniques simultaneously.READ»

Four Elements to Bring Good Karma to Your Business

In business, there's great emphasis on forecasting the future and forward-thinking, especially in my field of Internet presence. That's not to say we can't also take it one day at a time, reminiscent of the teachings from Buddhist ...READ»

Five Innovators Heading to CGI: An NGO Cementing Change

Next week is the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, the world's leading matchmaking event for social innovators and investors. CGI meeting objective: Bring together prospective partners to solve the world's biggest problems. This week, I'll feature one innovator each day. Here's the first.READ»

Three Questions to Help Marry What a Brand Is With What You Want It to Be

Brands are created either by accident or deliberately, and--at times--both. Here's a good example. Say a start-up company designs a sleeker, more durable type of surfboard because the owner is an avid participant in the sport and ...READ»

Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign?READ»

Ikea Denver Leads the Way for Big Box Geothermal Installations

An Ikea store in Denver, Colorado is set to lead the charge for big box geothermal installations.READ»

You Don't Have to Be a "Creative" to Be Creative

What does a person deemed "creative" look like? You might picture a man with horn-rimmed glasses in a long-sleeved black mock turtleneck or a young woman, powered by caffeine, donning the latest fashions. They are certain to come up ...READ»

Managers Need to Also Be Career Counselors

Ideally, the people you hire have some ambition and are somewhat competitive. This stems far beyond the office softball team or reaching for a promotion. Managers need to recognize that they play a critical role in getting employees ...READ»

Is Business Getting Girly? Don Draper Reports

As a rule I'm a 'never-before-noon' man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1857. Four words. "The End Of Men." READ»

Alex Bogusky Tells Fast Company He's Never Going Back to Advertising: Meet the New Gang at Crispin Porter

Alex Bogusky tells us he's done with advertising for good. The big question for Crispin now is how well its 1,000 employees will do now that their old leader--a solo pop superstar--has been replaced by a big band. Let's meet the members of that band.READ»

The Tin House Rules: Purchase Required

A crafty new submissions policy from Tin House Books is reminding writers to be readers—and consumers.The book press and quarterly literary magazine's recent call for manuscripts welcomes unsolicited submissions but comes with a ...READ»

Anti-Tourism Campaign Tars Alberta, Canada, Draws Parallels to Gulf Spill

The next region to lose tourists to the Gulf oil disaster might be... Alberta, Canada--not because of any direct connection to what's going on in the Gulf states, but as the result of an "anti-tourism" campaign from Corporate Ethics ...READ»

Extreme Corporate Narrative Makeover: Why Your Company Needs a New Bedtime Story

You hear the word "narrative" a lot these days. That's because we're looking for personal relationships--dialogue, shared experience, a bedtime story. READ»

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Alex Bogusky's Simple Message for Climate Change: Pollution Sucks

Creative Jesus-figure Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and the man behind Denver's B-cycle bike sharing program, has come up with a simple way to make the world understand the seriousness of climate change. Rather ...READ»

Four Tips to Make a Lasting Impression at a Networking Event

I can't count the number of times I've attended a networking event only to meet someone that doesn't differentiate themselves from other folks in their industry. For example, when coming across a technical programmer at a software ...READ»

How Design Conference

Forget bookworms -- graphic designers are the real victims of e-publishing. According to conference host Bryn Mooth, new gadgets like the Kindle and iPad pose a big question to these ink-and-paper pioneers: "How does this emerging ...READ»

The Technology Driving Denver's B-cycle Bike Sharing System

A month after the launch of Denver's bike sharing program, we look at the integrated technology that's making it easy for Coloradans to take a ride.READ»

Fast Company June Calendar

June MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN   01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 ...READ»

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Peter Calthorpe's Vision for California: Save the Cities, Save the World

New Urbanism has traditionally positioned itself as an antidote to the soullessness of urban sprawl, with an emphasis on "soul" -- the ineffable benefits in living in places built to human scale rather than breaking out hard metrics ...READ»

Teamwork at its best

Why groups are more beneficial than individual effortsREAD»

“Daddy, What’s a Brand?” and 9 More Awkward Questions for Uncertain Times

In uncertain times like these, let's get back to basics, shall we? Graham Button investigates 10 questions we all should be asking ourselves.READ»

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Denver: Incentivized Teachers [Fast Cities 2010]

Studies show that top-notch teaching talent is the biggest factor in a student's academic success, and Senator Michael Bennet, the former head of Denver Public Schools, thinks it's high time we start reflecting that in teachers' ...READ»

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Immersing yourself in your clients

Prior to signing on a client, it’s not uncommon to have numerous meetings to ensure everyone is on the same page with the goals and deliverables of a particular project.  What’s equally important is how companies can better ...READ»