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BY Fast Company Staff
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Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win By William C. Taylor & Polly LaBarre William Morrow, October 2006 An excerpt from the new book by Fast Company's cofounder: When it comes to thriving in a ...READ»

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Sociomateriality: More Academic Jargon Monoxide

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
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We academics do many things to invite deserved ridicule and parody. Perhaps the most vile habit--especially among behavioral scientists like me--is we invent or spread new words that are just absurd abuses of the English language. ...READ»

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Technology: How Much? How Fast? How Revolutionary? How Expensive?

BY Fast Company
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Not long ago, we believed in technology's outsized potential to move markets and to transform industries. Now the promise of technology seems unfulfilled. What's next? Will technology take a backseat? Or are we about to see a new role for technology -- one that is smarter, sharper, and more sustainable?READ»

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New Economy 101

BY Fast Company
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Take this crash course in the new world of work.READ»

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The Toughest Question in Business*

BY William Taylor
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*If You Answer Honestly Yesterday, I wrote about the power of originality in business -- and just how rare is it to discover companies, executives, and entrepreneurs with a truly distinctive take on their industry. Of course, few ...READ»

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Fast Talk: The Innovation Conversation

BY Polly LaBarre and Alan M. Webber, moderators
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Start with a conversation. Bring together 10 forward-looking business leaders -- visionaries in technology, video games, retail, hospitality, finance, and design. Add pressure and limit time to 90 minutes. What do you get? Instant innovation!READ»

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Fast Company Book Reviews

BY Fast Company
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Book reviews previously featured on fastcompany.com.READ»

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Fast Company Author Interviews

BY Fast Company
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Author interviews previously featured on fastcompany.com.READ»

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Best of the Worst ... Year Ever

BY Fast Company
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Fast Company's most popular and powerful magazine stories of 2001.READ»

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What Ideas Are You Fighting For?

BY Fast Company Staff
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Back in the early 1980s, when I was a student at Princeton University, one of my heroes was Pete Carril, the legendary (and now Hall of Fame) basketball coach. During his 29-year tenure, Carril’s Princeton Tigers regularly squared ...READ»

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At the Speed of Flight

BY Fast Company
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To commemorate e-tickets, sleepovers at O'Hare, and the full-and-upright position, we present Fast Company's most high-flying ideas about travel -- past, present, and future.READ»

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Best of the Best 2002

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 50

Organizations that are defining new standards of excellence and reinventing whole industries.READ»

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The Biggest Mind-Flip in Business Today

BY William Taylor
Relevancy Score: 48

There is nothing more powerful in business than a truly original idea -- a distinctive point of view that redefines an industry, a breakthrough design that transforms a product category. In an era of hyper-competition and non-stop ...READ»

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Stuff of the Month

BY Patrick Mitchell; Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 47

This month's special summer-reading roundup and a cool laptop stand.READ»

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The Fast Company Idea Wellspring

BY Fast Company Staff
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Over the weekend, the Financial Times published a list of the best business books of 2006. I'm proud to say that 3 of the 16 titles cited have a close connection to Fast Company: Fast Company's Greatest Hits, our compilation of great ...READ»

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Stuff of the Month

BY Fast Company
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Web sites, two books, a no-nonsense bag, and Randall Rothenberg's take on Madison Avenue's Ad of the Month.READ»

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Money Therapy 101

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 44

So you've got money issues? Is the relationship just not working out? It's time for some counseling from the money shrink, Pamela York Klainer. Can money ever buy happiness? Only if you can learn how to talk about it with honesty and clarity. (That's all the time we have. We'll take this up next session.)READ»

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Stuff of the Month

BY Fast Company
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Web sites, a book about pride, the new iPod, and Randall Rothenberg's take on Madison Avenue's Ad of the Month.READ»

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Welcome to "Maverick Monday"

BY William Taylor
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Dorothy was right: There really is no place like home. It feels great to kick off the release of our new book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, with a week of guest-blogging on the Fast Company site. ...READ»

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Stuff of the Month

BY Fast Company
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Web sites, a book about the advantages of being a Nobody, a laptop that can take a licking and keep on ticking, and Randall Rothenberg's take on Madison Avenue's Ad of the Month.READ»

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Let's Talk About Sex

BY Fast Company
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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»

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Take The Maverick Challenge

BY William Taylor
Relevancy Score: 37

It's been great fun to serve as a guest-blogger on the Fast Company Web site, and to have a "virtual soapbox" for the ideas in our new book, Mavericks at Work. In the book, and over the course of this week, I've made the case as ...READ»

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MIX It Up! Why Freedom Is a Bigger Game Than Power

BY William C. Taylor
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In May, Fortune published its annual "Fortune 500" issue devoted to America's largest corporations. It's full of reports on huge companies, billion-dollar legal battles, and supremely confident executives who talk a good game and ...READ»

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The Money Issue

BY The Founding Editors
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Welcome to our first-ever (and first annual) Money Issue. Don't worry, we haven't been possessed by the spirit of Malcolm Forbes. What you won't find in this issue are the utterly predictable (and totally unreliable) gimmicks that ...READ»

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Will the Net Bounce Back?

BY Polly LaBarre
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Last year's Internet Summit was full of boasting and banquets. This year's gathering of tech's brightest stars featured mea culpas and buffets. A field report on the past, present, and future of the Internet economy.READ»

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