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Topic: Shoshana Zuboff

  

The Teacher

"There are days when you wake up in a panic and you want to get out. Then you realize that the only way out is forward."READ»

Introducing: The Support Economy

In the next week or so, we'll formally launch a new online discussion group focusing on the work of Shoshana Zuboff, a Fast Company columnist. "The Support Economy: Voices for Change" will address distributed capitalism and a new ...READ»

Marketing by Self-Absorption

Katherine Stone, former director of experiential marketing at Coca-Cola -- and a Fast Company read whom I met for breakfast late last week -- offers some thoughtful commentary on a recent article about AOL's marketing mailings and ...READ»

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The Ongoing Evolution of Revolution

In a Sept. 15 opinion piece for the Harvard Crimson, professor Shoshana Zuboff exhorts incoming and continuing Harvard students to reinvent capitalism. Describing the current state of capitalism as "disruptive," Zuboff positions ...READ»

Investing in the Support Economy

John Maloney recently announced the organization of a new group called Support Economy Ventures that aims to bring together a community of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, "deep support professionals," and other business leaders ...READ»

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A Starter Kit for Business Ethics

Corporate cheating won't be stopped by regulation or legislation. That's why whistle-blowing is everybody's job.READ»

Size is Not a Strategy

The faster big business cleans up its ethical mess, the sooner we can address the real crisis of capitalism. Giant companies dominate the landscape -- from media to medicine, banking to broadband. But talented people don't want to work for them, customers hate doing business with them, and Wall Street doesn't want to invest in them. A candid appraisal of why so many big companies (even the honest ones) don't work -- and some radical ideas for reform.READ»

Small Insults, Heavy Toll

When our complex lives don't fit into a corporate model, we pay a heavy toll.READ»

From Subject to Citizen

Getting the feudalism out of capitalism.READ»

Career Taxidermy

Career taxidermy makes dead models of work and family look alive.READ»

No Choice Without Voice

Why do we demand so much from our toys and TVs, and so little from our banks, insurers, and drug companies?READ»

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How Much Is Enough?

It is the wedge question of the new economy: How much money for your work? How much time for family? How much public glory? How much time for reflection? Fast Company looks at the choices we all have to make.READ»

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A Call to Action

In her new column, this noted author and Harvard B-School professor says the 20th century model of capitalism is dead.READ»

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Only the Brave Surrender

Don't be ashamed of what you don't know.READ»

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Where Are the Women -- And Their Names?

It seems that as women yield corner offices to men, they are also giving up their names. A new study finds that more college-educated women are adopting their husbands' surnames after marriage, reversing a three-decade-long trend ...READ»

The Case for Optimism

Why it makes sense to look on the bright side of life.READ»

The New New Adulthood

How to survive the new new adulthood.READ»

Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

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Behind the Scandals: Men at Work

Recent business scandals have less to do with corrupt individuals than a narcissistic--and male--organizational culture.READ»

Like High School -- but With Suits

Don't let your company's labels become the only way you define yourself.READ»

Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

Finding the Future Around Us

Reinvention is daunting. Fortunately, new ways of doing business are all around us.READ»

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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»

Ranking Ourselves to Death

The link between control and contentment.READ»

America's Productivity Secret? You.

America's dirty little productivity secret: Cost-cutting companies are getting customers to do their work for them.READ»