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Action Item: The Pitch Called You

Tom Peters on creating and updating your résumé.READ»

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A Free Design Seminar

Two of Fast Company's favorite people--management guru Tom Peters and Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts--are putting together a web seminar to explore design's capacity to create emotional connections. Think i-Pod or BMW's mini ...READ»

Tom Peters's True Confessions (Continued)

To read the beginning of this article, please click here. My seventh confession: Search was perfect. There are no mistakes in it. None, none, none. The eight basic principles that I wrote down on that pad of yellow paper in May 1980, ...READ»

Leaders on Leaders

If you like Tom Peters and you like Kevin Roberts, you'll love Tom Peters interviewing Kevin Roberts. The two discuss production values, lovemarks, customer intimacy, the need for community, and how great ideas get made. It's an ...READ»

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A Fast Thought for Fast Branding Professionals

The first in a series of Fast Ideas for the Fast Company community from brand identity specialist David Brier.READ»

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Still Angry After All These Years

Many of the New Economy tenets Tom Peters espoused have fallen by the wayside. But this most famous of management thinkers wants you to know he remains riled--and relevant.READ»

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Socialutions Implementation Strategy: Taking your company from zero to hero on the social web

Many of today’s companies recognize the urgency of converting to a customer-centric, social web-based, operation. The excuses and faulty logic brought on by global prosperity have been replaced by an honest examination of ...READ»

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We Are Our Projects

In a past issue of Fast Company, Tom Peters asserted that you are your projects. A more up-to-date tweak at that might be drawn from a recent Computerworld piece that outlines how to pick a project team. While Kathleen Melymuka's ...READ»

Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Offshore Storm II

Practically everyone in business is talking about offshoring. Fast Company is. CFO is. CNN is. Fortune is. And now, Tom Peters is. While his roundup of 17 observations about offshoring aren't that new or different, one nugget did ...READ»

The Peters Principles

Sathnam Sanghera, a Financial Times reporter who'd never heard of Tom Peters -- or the ACLU, it seems -- recently got to interview the self-proclaimed "prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, professional ...READ»

The Brand Called You

Big companies understand the importance of brands. Today, in the Age of the Individual, you have to be your own brand. Here's what it takes to be the CEO of Me Inc.READ»

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Create Creativity Creatively

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Surviving the Offshoring Trend

Fast Company's long-time friend Tom Peters offers some very good advice to survive the ongoing migration of white-collar jobs to India, China and elsewhere. In his new book, Re-imagine!, the author of one of our most famous cover ...READ»

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Me Inc.: the Rethink

With our November 2005 issue, Fast Company will celebrate 10 years of publication. Each month until then, we'll review one of our favorite editions from the first decade.READ»

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Pocket Professors

Ever wonder how much money business speakers such as Jim Collins, Tom Peters, and Michael Porter pull down each time they take the stage? Workforce Management has compiled a handy chart. Here are the highlights: Clayton ...READ»

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The Brand Called... Who? VII

Tom Peters recently revisited the brand called you. Updating it for the now, he offers the following basic advice: Think about great gigs Be a spin doctor Master something Laugh off the fabulous screwup Embrace ambiguity Loyalty ...READ»

Leading Ideas: Use Confusion to Your Advantage

"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention." -- Tom Peters One of my clients, a successful 40 year veteran in the insurance business, is a master at using confusion to his advantage. 75% of what comes out of his mouth are ...READ»

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Rules for Leaders (Continued)

40. Leaders give everyone a cause. Corollary to rule #39: What's the point of our story? If you want people to care -- really to care -- enlist them in a cause that they can care about: being part of the team that will go down in ...READ»

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Best of the Worst ... Year Ever

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

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The Brand Called PhD

In the June issue of Fast Company, Tom Peters returns to the idea of the Brand Called You, updating it for the now with eight tips and tactics. Meanwhile, according to PhysicsWeb, physicists at Clarkson University have determined ...READ»

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Who's SuperFast!

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

My Greatest Lesson

Unit of OneREAD»

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Pushing the European Envelope

Last night over dinner, Leonardo Previ and I discussed the state of Italian -- and broader European -- business, as well as the tendency to look to America for new ideas, practices, and processes. Many of the challenges we considered ...READ»

Management by example

Whether it’s finance, marketing, production, strategy, human relations or any other discipline, managers accept that the subject is teachable and that, once taught, the lessons will bring value to managers and the organisations ...READ»