Topic: South America

Negotiate the Big Social Issues

We argue, they die. We party, they are abused. We remain spectators, they remain uneducated and alone. Share the cause. READ»

Career Advice from Fokko Wientjes, Sustainability Director of DSM

DSM is a Dutch-based life- and materials-science company behind MixMe, a powdered multivitamin supplement developed in partnership with the UN World Food Program to ease malnutrition in developing countries. Fokko Wientjes, 45, says the secret to his 20-plus career at DSM is about not staying in the same place.READ»

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MEET: World Retail Congress

Barcelona is the place for executives to talk shop -- from green packaging to worldwide economic worries -- April 9-11. We asked five attendees to tell us what's on their agendas, besides tapas.READ»

• Now: April 2008
• Numerology: Tax Time
• Journal-ist: Freedom of Choice

The Next Big Green Industry: Barcoding Trees to Save Forests?

Keeping track of illegally logged trees is a lot easier when you know how many trees there are. At least that's the hope of Helveta, a British company that hammers plastic barcodes into trees. The company, which is tracking a ...READ»

Know Your Innovation Course

Flying was huge part of my father’s life. He was the mechanic and navigator on a good will flight from New York to Bogota in the early days of flight. That’s him on the left in the photo of the two man crew just before leaving ...READ»

NVPR Expands Into South America

NVPR EXPANDS INTO SOUTH AMERICAOPENS OFFICE IN BUENOS AIRES EXPANSION COINCIDES WITH INAGURATION OF GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK    Los Angeles and Buenos Aires (--November 18, 2008--) NVPR is expanding into South America and ...READ»

Children for Children: On Saving Lives and Leadership Development

I am usually writing about leadership development for corporate executives - high impact service opportunities to involve business people and philanthropists in global issues. Today, I am thrilled to write about a national program ...READ»

FC Book Club - Creating Community

It looks like we have our first "hit" with the Fast Company Book Club. A major online bookseller based in Seattle (named after a river in South America -- you do the math) sent out an e-mail inviting employees to participate in a ...READ»

Seeding Home Soil

When I graduated from my socially conscious liberal arts college, it seemed like every other graduate wanted to go to South America or India and work on micro-enterprise projects with local women. One friend even found a venture ...READ»

Top Thought Leaders Agree: Continue or Accelerate Marketing In A Down Economy

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New Survey Has World Business Leaders Questioning, "Who Are We?"

The recession is emotionally tough for all of us, but apparently many of the world's business leaders are having a serious identity crisis.Korn/Ferry International released its Q4 Confidence in Leadership Index today, measuring ...READ»

The Moral Bankruptcy of Modern Economic Globalization

Globalization is thought the next step forward march in the linear dance trajectory insofar as human economic evolution. Beginning with the inception of humanity in and of itself, cave men, human tribalism, city states, nation states and finally globalization and its associated global liberal economic markets as Adam Smith envisaged. Everything is “for sale” in the 21st century from human worth to international justice.READ»

Motorola Envisions the Cellphone of the Future

Hyper futuristic cellphone concepts are usually the province of student competitions. But Motorola tasked designers from its offices around the world to create a visionary cellphone replacement, and here are the results. As ...READ»

The Superfruits Are Coming

Bored with blueberries? Passing on pomegranates? Marketers are pushing a new generation of exotic, good-for-you flavors.READ»

Tech Award Laureates: PATH Ultra Rice Brings Nutritious Meals to Developing Countries

We've already looked at a few of this year's Tech Awards Laureates (Solar Ear, Cows to Kilowatts), which have been honored by the international awards program for developing technology that benefits humanity. But the laureate that ...READ»

MDR-TB: The Galapagos Effect in Health Care

I hope I got your attention with my last post about the Pacific Health Summit and the acute global threat of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). All of the issues around innovation in public health that I are covered in this ...READ»

Join the Corporate Literati

Don't let your day job prevent you from becoming the next Hemingway.READ»

Go Ahead, Forward This Email!

Fast Company's version of the infamous "the earth's population" email links real statistics with real sources. Finally, a chain letter you can believe in.READ»

At what cost?

The race is on to rescue Ken Barnes, a 47-year-old Californian whose storm-damaged boat is adrift somewhere off the tip of South America. Barnes had been trying to circumnavigate the globe. Now, apparently, he's trying just to ...READ»

WorkLIfeSuccess: Ode to Monday Morning

1999 I was working on $66 million systems overhaul at the World Bank.  Every Monday morning one of our top analysts (I'll call him Mark) would come in with his extra-huge (Venti) cup from Starbucks, pure caffeinated lift. I was ...READ»

With the Advent of Edge Architecture, the Old Boys Are Making Way for Newcomers From Mumbai and Burkina Faso

Move over Foster and Stern: tomorrow's design stars are the ones building schools and community shelters in their native countries.READ»

Unchicken? Synthetic Flavors Get More Authentic

New and improved synthetic flavors mimic the real thing.READ»

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Livin' La Vida Boca

If you think of Boca Raton, Florida as a retirement village for New York snowbirds, you're missing out on the location of the future of the Internet. And hey, the beach isn't too bad either.READ»

Milan Report: The Hand Strikes Back

At this year’s furniture fair, the stitched and artisanal rally against mass production.READ»

The Secret To A Successful Career: Being Tall and Attractive?

n an ideal world, people are hired and promoted because of their abilities, competence, attitudes and interpersonal skills--right? Maybe not.Despite how far we've come in the areas of recruiting, selecting and developing people in organizations, there's evidence that we still judge people based on what some would consider superficial criteria. In fact, there's lots of evidence to show that people have gained success in their careers because they are taller and more attractive. READ»