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Letter From the CEO

Handing over the keys.READ»

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Socialism? We'll admit it: John Chambers's Cisco isn't a "socialist enterprise" in the traditional sense ("Revolution in San Jose," December 2008/January 2009). As senior writer Ellen McGirt explained to one reader, "The ...READ»

Employee Engagement Lessons from Fast Company’s “30 Second MBA” Part 2

Here’s part two of my conversation with Ellen McGirt, Senior Writer for Fast Company magazine and Dean of Fast Company’s “30 Second MBA” website.Part one can be found here.5. Many organizations see and hear the potential ...READ»

Employee Engagement Lessons from Fast Company’s 30 Second MBA: Part 1

I’m a big fan of Fast Company’s “30 Second MBA” site. The minute it launched, I felt it offered a simple yet highly effective way for organizations to integrate social media concepts into their internal communication ...READ»

Letter from the Editor

Yes we can.READ»

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Kevin Van Aelst For this issue's Now section, artist Kevin Van Aelst created a fictitious holiday world to spell out the words "December & January." He arranged bits of a broken champagne flute in the spot where he once dropped ...READ»

Fast Cities 2007

From Chicago to Shanghai, urban centers that are shaping our future.READ»

Fast Company Magazine April 2009 Issue Online

This Month's Cover Story: Boy Wonder: How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign , by Ellen McGirt, page 58 The untold story of how Chris Hughes, at the tender age of 25, helped create two of the most ...READ»

Careers: Obama and Personal Branding

Fast Company in its April issue has a terrific article by Ellen McGirt on "The Brand Called Obama" that is must reading for anyone in personal branding regardless of your political persuasion. The article talks about how ...READ»

Music to Save the Earth By

Starting tomorrow in Sydney, Australia and continuing for the next 24 hours around the globe is the Al Gore-inspired Live Earth concert, which will feature 150 performers in eight cities around the world. It will be shown on more ...READ»

The Media is Social

How FastCompany.com will alter the digital landscape.READ»

Brand America: Europe Hearts Obama

A friend of mine who happens to be a political journalist just returned from a 10 day holiday jaunt through Europe last week. His most startling discovering, he told me: Europeans are gaga over Obama. In Fast Company's April ...READ»

Why Facebook Won't Sell

That's a very strong title, I know. But it's not mine, and it's not as bad as it sounds. It was written by Paul Scrivens, an FC Expert blogger, designer, and one of the founders of blogging community 9rules, on his own blog ...READ»

Letter from the Editor: Attitude Is Everything

My father-in-law uses an expression, "Attitude is everything." It's his nonconfrontational way of saying, "Stop complaining." This expression has been on my mind lately when I talk to media and advertising executives about the ...READ»

Letter from the Editor: Endless Energy

When staff writer Anya Kamenetz and her husband, an engineer at Google, went on their honeymoon, they set aside a week to volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Pune, India. The hospice, it turned out, desperately wanted its own Web site. ...READ»

• Beyond the Grid
• Create Your Own Economy
• The Evolution of Amazon

Does Ethnocentricity Sell? Part 1: Advertising

Black History Month is almost over, so I figure I'd tackle this topic while we're still in February. Maybe it's because I'm not watching as much TV, but I haven't seen nearly as many ads saying "We Celebrate Black History ...READ»

Better than Oprah: Gore Gets Even More Eco-Friendly Facetime

Enviro-darling Al Gore is just about all over the place these days. This Saturday he and concert producer Kevin Wall are putting on Live Earth, the 24-hour global warming benefit, and he just graced the cover of our July/August issue ...READ»

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• Hope for Hydrogen

Mike Rowe Gets Dirty In Person

On the front line at Fast Company's first magazine signing event. . . We invited Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs, and our cover subject of our February 2008 issue to sign copies of the magazine at a local Borders in Los Angeles ...READ»

Choosing a Political Brand

I just read Danielle Sacks’ post on Europeans Hearting Obama, which stirred me into a heartfelt response of my own… When you think about it, Barack Obama, the human being, is in many ways the polar opposite of President ...READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies