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BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:14 AM

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

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 85
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:33 AM

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
Relevancy Score: 79
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:34 AM

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

INNOVATION   |  4 comments

The Toughest Question in Business*


Relevancy Score: 71
Wed Oct 4, 2006 at 11:25 AM

*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
Relevancy Score: 68
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:28 AM

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
Relevancy Score: 64
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

Book reviews previously featured on fastcompany.com.READ»

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Fast Company Author Interviews

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 62
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

Author interviews previously featured on fastcompany.com.READ»

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Best of the Worst ... Year Ever

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 61
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:41 AM

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

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What Ideas Are You Fighting For?


Relevancy Score: 55
Tue Oct 3, 2006 at 1:06 PM

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
Relevancy Score: 51
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

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
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

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

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The Biggest Mind-Flip in Business Today


Relevancy Score: 48
Thu Oct 5, 2006 at 1:00 PM

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
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM

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

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The Fast Company Idea Wellspring


Relevancy Score: 46
Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 3:22 PM

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
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

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

WORK LIFE BALANCE   |  Comment

Money Therapy 101

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:33 AM

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
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM

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"


Relevancy Score: 42
Mon Oct 2, 2006 at 12:15 PM

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
Relevancy Score: 39
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

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
Relevancy Score: 37
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

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


Relevancy Score: 37
Fri Oct 6, 2006 at 9:16 AM

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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The Money Issue

BY The Founding Editors
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:39 AM

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
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

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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Medical Missionaries: Mobilizing Change

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:42 AM

Connected by a common mission, these far-flung medical innovators are working to revolutionize health care by providing quality care to all children, regardless of income, location, or illness.READ»

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Stuff of the Month

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

Book | Memo to CEOs: It Is All About You Michael Maccoby's new book, The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership (Broadway Books), is either a case of really bad timing or a prescient manifesto packed ...READ»

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