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The Three " Reals"

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

The Test of Transparency

In Harriet Rubin's column this month, Sam Christensen ("the hot go-to guy on power today") says: "The most charismatic thing about people now is public self-disclosure. It's people who say, 'I'm willing to take the risk of being ...READ»

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Women on the Verge of a Power Breakthrough

Forget the glass ceiling. A war cry, a strategy manual, and an economic treatise equip today's woman to handle the capitalist tool.READ»

Sister Cities

Fast Company visits Houston, San Francisco, and Boston in search of female leaders with smart advice for tough times. Here, a dozen powerful women (and a few men) share their thoughts on leadership, crisis, and mentoring.READ»

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The Fast Pack

We invited some of the smartest people we know to consider four of the toughest questions around. Fast Company celebrates its second anniversary with the ultimate business roundtable.READ»

Thank You Ma'am, May I Have Another?

Harriet Rubin's commentary on the changing nature of sex relations in the business world.READ»

How to Find Your Future

"Your biggest competitor is your own view of the future," argues one of two new books, both devoted to helping business leaders build companies and design lives that reflect the confusing realities of the new economy.READ»

How Do Leaders Deal With Loss?

Adman extraordinaire Jay Chiat once proudly told me his secret for getting people to take his calls. "I call the person's secretary and say, 'Tell X it's his doctor, and I have the results of his tests.' X rushes to the phone; it ...READ»

An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring

Forget what you've always been told about how mentoring arrangements should work. Here's one woman's unsparing look at the pleasures and perils of the workplace's most complicated relationship.READ»

Good Calls and Bad Calls from Our First 10 Years

Here are the predictions we got right and others that turned out to be very wrong.READ»

An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring

Forget what you've always been told about how mentoring arrangements should work. Here's one woman's unsparing look at the pleasures and perils of the workplace's most complicated relationship.READ»

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The Power of Words

We're hurt, angry, confused, sad. Where do we turn to make sense of what's happened -- and to move forward? To poets, songwriters, philosophers, and historical figures. Add your favorite quote here.READ»

How Will You Fail?

In My Humble Opinion: Harriet Rubin on living dangerously.READ»

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Power

During What we now consider the genteel 1990s, the meanest SOB I had ever met was Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today. His ego then was bigger than his newspaper, with which Gannett was blanketing the country at huge losses. At one ...READ»

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Let's Talk About Sex

Is the new world of work as open for women as it is for men? Yes and no. These Fast Company stories about gender relations show that the more things change, the more a few things stay the same.READ»

Living Dangerously - Issue 34

"Girl-gang members are the new mistresses of misrule."READ»

Summertime, and the Reading Is Easy

Put aside your workaday reading material and pick up something that stretches your mind, grips your imagination, or backfills the gaps in your literary repertoire. We have some wise suggestions for your summer book list.READ»

Global Values in a Local World

Meet Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading philosophers. She's asking some top businesspeople to confront today's toughest question: Are there global values to connect us all?READ»

Power

Back in the fat days -- the happy mid-1990s -- Clifford Stoll, the bad-boy computer programmer, asked me, "What's going to happen to us when electricity is gone?" Short of the apocalypse, I wondered, how could that ever happen? I ...READ»

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What's the Story?

Dave Pollard offers some useful commentary on -- and consideration of -- the role stories can play in a project. Addressing the information and entertainment value stories have as tools to help influence and inspire behavior in a ...READ»

Power

"I've never seen a time like this," says Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and, for the past 20 years, one of the greatest architects of power in the country. Ailes has a gift: He knows what makes people stars. He's most ...READ»

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Living Dangerously - Issue 37

Can we develop an ability to have vision?READ»

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Changing the Game - Again

Back in 1995, when we launched Fast Company, our most valuable asset was our originality. What was different about the magazine? Its message. Its language. Its design. Most important, its promise to readers. Nobody talked about ...READ»

Desperately Seeking Vernon

If power resides in personal networks, when it comes to boards of directors, Vernon Jordan is America's most powerful man. So where the heck is he? Vernon! Phone Harriet!READ»

Living Dangerously - Issue 41

"Who or what is killing the great women of the corporate world?"READ»