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GM's Employee Buyout Offer

After the markets closed yesterday, General Motors announced that approximately 35,000 hourly workers have accepted buyouts to leave the company. The huge number was a surprise to both management and the union, indicating that the ...READ»

Updates to Stories from Fast Company

Time Out Americans may not be working fewer hours, as David Roberts suggested in "All in a Day's Work " (May), but more of us are working fewer days. In July, Utah became the first state to implement a mandatory ...READ»

In Today's Papers

A few links for your bookmarks, digg, and del.icio.us : Microsoft releases details of its iPod competitor, Zune "Microsoft (MSFT) on Thursday released some details about its Zune media player, saying it will go beyond Apple's ...READ»

The Three Keys to Change

In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.READ»

With Justice for All?

Labor organizer Jane McAlevey is forcing companies in Connecticut's ultraprosperous Fairfield County to confront a moral challenge that they would prefer to ignore -- and, in the process, she is forcing all of us to confront our personal sense of justice.READ»

A Piece of Work

Three decades after the groundbreaking book Work in America, its authors tell us how things really turned out.READ»

Death of Saturn Doesn't Shock Used Car Dealer in Winston Salem, NC

Car dealer vows to continue selling and servicing pre-owned Saturns as long as there is a demand for them to do so. READ»

Unleash Your Ideavirus

Here's a big idea: Ideas are driving the economy. Here's a bigger idea: Ideas that spread fastest win.READ»

Trust for a Change

How building trust can facilitate change.READ»

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The “New” G.M. Sounds Dangerously Like the Old, Dead Saturn

“The General Motors Corporation today displayed the prototype of a small car intended to someday match similar Japanese cars in cost and match or exceed them in quality.”So wrote The New York Times on November 4th, 1983.  And ...READ»

Get With the Program: Smart Strategies for Online Teaching

A startup with real vision, class.com is reinventing teaching for the 21st century. Corporate trainers would do well to watch how high-school kids learn online.READ»

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How Companies Have Sex

The new game is combining organizational DNA in unique and inventive ways.READ»

Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

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Leadership: Optimism Against the Odds

Let’s say you’re the CEO of a company that just lost more than $12 billion dollars the preceding year. Your company is not expected to post an annual profit until 2009. So what do you do? Hide your head in the sand? Scream at ...READ»

The Three Ways of Great Leaders

In a new study, some leading business thinkers identify the attributes of great leadership -- and nominate the best bosses of the 20th century.READ»

How to Lead Now

Getting Extraordinary Performance When You Can't Pay for It.READ»