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The glass ceiling remains unbroken

The Glass Ceiling While 95 percent of 2,521 American workers believe women have made important advancements in the workplace over the last ten years, 86 percent also believe that the glass ceiling is still in place, ...READ»

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Build Your Innovation Tool Kit

On my flight back from Rochester the other night after delivering a workshop to a group of CEOs, I was reading a fascinating article titled "Culture in Action" by Ann Swidler. In it I read the following ...READ»

Money Therapy 101

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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Here's Your Allowance, Mom

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Newspapers Could Be Saved by... Gaming?

It's no secret that newspapers are struggling as readers get older and young people stop (or never start) picking up the paper. So what's a hemorrhaging old brand to do? If it's the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, create a ...READ»

Mind Games

According to the people at Play, whose clients include some of the world's most serious companies, the best ideas come from playful minds. And the way to tap into playful minds is to play -- together.READ»

8 Principles for Learning

A study aligns the reality of work in the field with XBS's overall change strategy.READ»

Fast Focus

Kodak's "fast flow" factory in Guadalajara, Mexico builds nearly 40 million Fun Saver cameras each year. The plant, called SUN Guadalajara, combines the best attributes of a good photograph to create a picture of how to succeed in global competition.READ»

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How Mayo Clinic and Microsoft Are Empowering Patients

Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel Medical Director, Global Products and Services Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota   David Cerino General Manager Health Solutions Group Microsoft Redmond, ...READ»

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The Ethics Monitor

The results of our first Ethics Survey. Plus: morally challenged folks from all over.READ»

How She Does It

Abruptly widowed, Sophie Vandebroek stayed with her demanding fast-track career--but on her terms.READ»

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The Agenda - Introduction

Fast Company's second annual report on the people, teams, and companies that are doing work that matters -- and creating the future of work.READ»

Escape from the Red Zone

Peter Naylor and Claire Crittenden have a revolutionary approach for confronting the business world's last taboo: emotion.READ»

A Prescription for Innovation

The Mayo Clinic's new SPARC lab is driving experimentation at the frontier of health care. How? By getting physicians to think more like designers.READ»

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A Prescription for Innovation

The Mayo Clinic's new SPARC lab is driving experimentation at the frontier of health care. How? By getting physicians to think more like designers.READ»

XBS Learns to Grow

Chris Turner is the 'Learning Person' for Xerox Business Services -- and the impresario of a dazzling array of events that offer XBSers the learning skills they need to keep the organization growing at 40% a year.READ»

Employee Innovator: Wegmans

Moving the cheese: Wegmans relies on smart, deeply trained employees to create a "theater of food."READ»

The Agenda - Total Teamwork

Teams of doctors, nurses, and technicians at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic bring new-economy practices to "old-fashioned" medicine.READ»

Boom Town, Soon Town

Another interesting comparative read is Business 2.0's March feature on the next boom towns (access code: B2MAR3140) -- "America's 20 hottest job markets" -- and Inc.'s March feature on the top 25 cities for doing business in ...READ»

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Bisphenol A Remains in Body For Longer Than Thought

Our recent article shone a light into the dark and complex issues of bisphenol A, or BPA, a component in many consumer plastic goods. And now a new study is darkening matters further since it suggests the chemical stays in our systems ...READ»

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Pathfinder

Try one of these little-known, off-road gems.READ»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»

Why You Should Include a Joker in Every Brainstorming Session

The Fast Interview: John Morreall on the link between humor and innovation, why authoritarian bosses fear humor, and the funniest CEO in America.READ»

Jetsons Moments: Fast Forward

Here's what they've thought of next: waterless washing machines, robotic skin, and wireless broadband from on high. In the pages that follow, we present a portfolio of emerging technologies that could change the world in the next decade--or at least get our clothes clean.READ»

The Sentry Group Builds a Green Box

When Terry Smith implemented the Natural Validation and Planning System on the manufacturing floor, the workers took note -- this program wasn't going away.READ»