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Preparing Kids for the Future Economy

Want your kids to be ready for tomorrow's workplace? Make sure they get some free, unstructured time.READ»

How to Act Like a Designer

If you're in any business, you're in the design business. We're all designers now. That's cool, but it's also daunting. How can civilian sales reps and IT geeks incorporate a design sensibility into their work and life? We posed that question to several top designers: How can we be, well, more like them? Here's what they suggested.READ»

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Peripheral Personality

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Design Minded

Dan Pink examines some of the causes of the rise of the creative class.READ»

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Library of the Living Dead

Embrace a business best seller at your brain's peril.READ»

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Soap Gets in Your Eyes

How our buying fever becomes bubblicious.READ»

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Books That Matter: Wolf Hengst

A book recommendation from Wolf Hengst, of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.READ»

Pop! Till You Drop

For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to outhink the world's problems. This year's no different.READ»

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Fast Company Library

Books previously featured in Fast CompanyREAD»

The Network Unbound

How TagWorld and other next-generation social networks could feed your business--and maybe even change the world.READ»

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Devil's Food

Big Food wants everything bad to be good for you.READ»

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Launching the “Attention” Movement...Distracted, by Maggie Jackson

After finishing Maggie Jackson’s new book, Distracted, I wondered if I was experiencing the same reaction as those who read Rachel Carson’s seminal book on the environment, Silent Spring, in 1962.  Carson’s readers probably ...READ»

The New Prophet of Nonprofits

The right way to fund the battle against hunger, says activist Bill Shore, isn't just to redistribute wealth -- it's to create it.READ»

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The Idiot Box

If you want to learn something about the world of business, turn off your TV.READ»

The Tao of Steve

The real reason we keep buying Apple products.READ»

Moving Pictures

"If you want to send a message" in Hollywood, the saying goes, "call Western Union." Don't tell that to entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll. With 11 Oscar nominations for cause-driven work such as Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck--and a growing roster of A-list talent at his side--he's proving that it pays to be pointed.READ»

Do You Buy the New Marketing?

It's new! It's radical! It's digital! And it's designed for you. That's the pitch from a hot new crop of books on marketing. Together, they amount to a cutting-edge curriculum for connecting with customers.READ»

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The Hollow Man

Peeling the layers on Alan Greenspan's real contribution to the economy.READ»

Fast Company Library

Books previously featured in Fast Company (1999)READ»

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What's on Your Agenda?

Ten senior executives and thinkers explain the most crucial item on their leadership agenda.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»