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Yesterday's post from FC intern Kevin Ohannessian about Googling former classmates got me thinking. If you and your co-workers are at a loose end this afternoon, why not challenge them to a game of competitive name-surfing? Look ...READ»

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The ABCs of Strategy

Read all three parts of the ABCs of Strategy series.READ»

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Fast Cities 2007

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

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RTI's Low-Tech Manifesto

Trash heaps of outdated PCs are being turned into a treasure trove of low-tech innovation by a group of feisty Brits. Learn about the manifesto behind the Redundant Technology Initiative mission.READ»

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Talk to Our Customers? Are You Crazy?

David McQuillen's "experience immersion" is forcing Credit Suisse to think differently about its clients. For starters, there'll be no more wet grocery bags.READ»

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Punch! Kick! Gouge! (And Other Ways to Lead)

Executives who are hungry for leadership are taking weekend courses at Dani-Hi, Israel's world-famous school for counterterrorism training. We'd tell you more -- but then we'd have to kill you.READ»

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Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

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Incoming!

Fresh faces from the front lines of design.READ»

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M-Powered

A skunkworks at BMW builds customized, high-performance screamers. It's also building a better BMW.READ»

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M-Powered

A skunkworks at BMW builds customized, high-performance screamers. It's also building a better BMW.READ»

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Please Displease Me

Hey, sometimes innovation ain't pretty. And neither are the cars Patrick le Quement designs for Renault. He's known for inspiring equal amounts of awe and anger -- along with strong salesREAD»

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Fortune Teller

Royal Dutch/Shell spent decades pioneering a system of scenario planning called TINA (There Is No Alternative) to anticipate dramatic changes in the world. Now your company can come up with its own TINA.READ»

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Prophet Among Pinstripes

James Montier is a financial heretic. And among London's banking set, he's winning plenty of converts.READ»

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The King Of Curry

Sir Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon has built one of the world's largest ethnic-food factories, cooking and shipping close to 1 million packaged meals a week. Starting at 6 a.m. every day, 1,000 workers cook from a menu of more than 800 dishes. Just don't call it fast food.READ»

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La Dolce Vita, Internet Style

Colletta di Castelbianco is a 13th-century Italian village that was on the verge of extinction -- until an architect gave it a new design and Internet connectivity gave it a new lease on life. The story of how it became a haven for mobile professionals.READ»

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Beyond the Wireless Bubble

Kenny Hirschhorn, executive VP of strategy, imagineering, and futurology at Orange PLC, a leading European telecom company, is betting that he knows what's next for wireless access to the Internet.READ»

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Know-It-Alls Need Not Apply

Sometimes the smartest people in the room are the ones who don't know anything at all -- especially if they're in the Fourth Room, a creative safe house in London where the credo is "Leap before you look."READ»

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One Man's Trash

Trash heaps of outdated PCs are being turned into a treasure trove of low-tech innovation by a group of feisty Brits. As XP renders even more PCs obsolete, can their upstart movement go global?READ»

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Not-So-Secret (Change) Agents

A team of 25 evangelists, strategists, and technologists helps British Telecom's biggest customers -- as well as BT itself -- get ready for the digital future. Fast.READ»

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Add Your Voice

Last week, Fast Company readers from as far away as Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore expressed their revulsion and offered their support. Read their thoughts and then add your own reflections and suggestions.READ»

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There Is No Alternative to ...

How do you develop strategy in an uncertain economy? Meet TINA: There Is No Alternative. First, Royal Dutch/Shell pioneered the system of scenario planning to anticipate dramatic changes in the world. But when everything starts to change, the way to do planning is to focus on things that don't change.READ»

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'We Recycle Your Air.'

Social entrepreneur Dan Morrell is targeting a massive and complex environmental problem: global warming. But his solution is deceptively simple: The way to save the planet is one tree at a time.READ»