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Topic: Martial Arts

  
LEISURE   |  Comment

The Better Dojo Bureau

BY Natalie Engler
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:37 PM

How to choose a martial arts school.READ»

BRAND STRATEGIES   |  1 comment

FC EXCLUSIVE: Interivew with Chess Master Josh Waitzkin on Business & Life!

BY Adisa Banjoko
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 12:10 PM

Josh Waitzkin was going head to head with the worlds greatest chess minds at the age of 6. Today his a world champion tai chi master. His bestselling book, The Art of Learning covers the blending of chess and martial arts ...READ»

BRAND STRATEGIES   |  1 comment

MMA Culture and Biz Discussion with Alan "Gumby" Marques from www.onthemat.com

BY Adisa Banjoko
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Apr 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM

Before most people cared about the UCF and MMA culture, only a chosen few saw what what coming. These are the folks who would trade VHS tapes (remember those?) with other people across the country and meet on message boards to ...READ»

CAREER SUCCESS   |  Comment

Kung Fu Panda and Self Confidence

BY Bud Bilanich
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jun 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM

Kung Fu Panda – have you seen it?  Cathy and I saw it on an IMAX screen over the weekend.  Very clever and entertaining. But that’s not why I’m posting about it today.  Kung Fu Panda makes some great common sense ...READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS   |  Comment

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

BY Ian Wylie
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:18 AM

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»

FILM   |  3 comments

Two MMA Films, A Million Complaints- One Conclusion

BY Adisa Banjoko
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 11:38 PM

In the past year or so, two MMA related films have come out. One is Never Back Down, the other is Red Belt. There has been a lot of talk about the legitimacy of these films. These films have one thing in common- MMA. Outside of that, ...READ»

GUERILLA MARKETING   |  2 comments

Interivew w/ UFC Commentator Eddie Bravo

BY Adisa Banjoko
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Sep 7, 2008 at 12:20 AM

Eddie Bravo: Formless Wisdom Pt. 1 By: Adisa Banjoko Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. ...READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

The Kick of Karate

BY Natalie Engler
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:39 PM

What do 10 million Americans see in the martial arts? Everything they need to block, punch, and kick their way through the day.READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

White Collar, Black Belt

BY Natalie Engler
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:39 PM

Some first-step exercises for putting Aikido tactics into practice.READ»

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Digital Dojo

BY Natalie Engler
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:38 PM

A review of "The Martial Arts Explorer."READ»

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How to Start in the Martial Arts

BY Natalie Engler
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:37 PM

Sort through the best-known martial arts -- and pick the path that's best for you.READ»

BRAND STRATEGIES   |  2 comments

RZA, Chess Masters and MMA Fighters Gather to Stop Violence

BY Adisa Banjoko
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM

Hip-Hop Chess Federation Teams with MMA Fighters Jake Sheilds and Ralek Gracie, RZA, Rakaa, IM Josh Waitzkin, for the “Mind Over Matter” Chess & Grappling Exhibition HHCF brings together top entertainers and fighters to ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Flip Your Competition

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 65
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:38 AM

Harvard Business School professor David B. Yoffie takes the martial arts into the executive suite. Your rivals will flip over his ideas (if you apply them right).READ»

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FC CALENDAR   |  2 comments

Ultimate Fighting Championships Fan Expo

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 52
Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 1:00 AM

The UFC has evolved considerably since the late 1990s, when Senator John McCain likened its battles to "human cockfighting." Today, the professional mixed-martial-arts league discourages "eye gouging of any kind," "stomping a ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Culture

BY Anne Kreamer
Relevancy Score: 48
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

Anne We've known each other for a decade through several jobs and several companies. Practicing martial arts has seemed like an important tool for you to maintain focus and balance at work. Are there specific lessons from that kind of ...READ»

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Contributors

BY Fast Company staff
Relevancy Score: 46
Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 3:55 PM

MARKUS KLINKO & INDRANI When Markus Klinko and Indrani Pal- Chaudhuri teamed up in 1995, both were already stars -- Klinko as a classical harpist, and Indrani as a fashion model. Now they are famous for their iconic images of ...READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE   |  Comment

The Art of Business Judo

BY Jill Rosenfeld
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:29 AM

It's the essence of competition: big versus little, strong versus slight, heavy versus light. Now imagine that you're the one who's little, slight, and light! How do you use your opponent's strengths to your advantage? Take a lesson from former judo champREAD»

LEADERSHIP   |  3 comments

Cerf's Up

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 40
Fri Sep 9, 2005 at 5:37 PM

In what could most possibly be the coolest human resources and hiring coup in recent years, Vint Cerf just left MCI for Google. Imagine wooing a silverback like Cerf to work for your company: Talk about old Net economy meets new Net ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2006   |  1 comment

Girl Empowered


Relevancy Score: 35
Mon Aug 14, 2006 at 10:30 AM

Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran a series called Tracking the MySpace Generation, which was based on the findings of an entertainment poll the newspaper conducted with Bloomberg. In the final article on tweens that focused mainly ...READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  1 comment

You can do anything - but not everything.

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:16 AM

David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace -- without wearing yourself down.READ»

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100 Most Creative People in Business: #23 - Ed Leonard

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 34
Thu May 21, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Whether it's making Shrek come alive, guiding the 20 million hours of computing time to build Kung Fu Panda, or putting the amoeba-like B.O.B. into 3-D for Monsters vs. Aliens, DreamWorks' problems eventually find Ed Leonard. ...READ»

PARENTING   |  Comment

The Hippest City in the USA (Des Moines)

BY Alison Overholt
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM

And the best place to work is . . . Des Moines? Okay, we admit it's a stretch. But unemployment here is so low, and work-life balance so important, that Iowa's capital city seems pretty cool to us.READ»

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2009 FAST 50   |  14 comments

The Most Innovative Companies in Sports

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed Feb 11, 2009 at 6:03 PM

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Sports.READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  2 comments

Don't Manage Time, Manage Yourself

BY David Beardsley
Relevancy Score: 30
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:51 PM

Overworked overachievers suffer from a 'gnawing sense of anxiety.' Here's personal-productivity guru David Allen's cure.READ»