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BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

Last week, Fast Company readers from as far away as Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore expressed their revulsion and offered their support. Read their thoughts and then add your own reflections and suggestions.READ»

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Fast Talk: 9/11/02

BY Christine Canabou
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:36 AM

It's one year later. Where were you then? Where are you now? How have you changed?READ»

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9/11   |  1 comment

The WTC Memorial: Rebranded

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM

A new logo strips away the mess that symbolizes the chaos of the WTC site.READ»

EMPLOYEE RETENTION   |  Comment

Business Fights Back: Crisis and Confidence at Ground Zero

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 96
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:32 AM

Pamela Porter and her colleagues at Crisis Management International are the National Guard of therapists -- called to duty at a moment's notice to respond to disaster. Here's the remarkable story of their response to September 11.READ»

DESIGN   |  Comment

Building Offices

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Feb 11, 2004 at 10:14 AM

Last night, the first episode of the new PBS series Innovation: Life, Inspired focused on "Building to Extremes," or the global race to develop the world's tallest building. Narrated by the nearly passionless Billy Crudup, the ...READ»

DESIGN   |  Comment

We're going green


Relevancy Score: 90
Mon Oct 9, 2006 at 8:01 PM

Here at Fast Company World Headquarters, we're looking ahead to . . . our brand new world headquarters. In March, we'll be moving downtown to 7 World Trade Center, the rebuilt version of a tower destroyed in the 9/11 attacks five ...READ»

DESIGN   |  8 comments

Proud to Be Green (With Envy)


Relevancy Score: 82
Fri Jun 15, 2007 at 5:02 PM

We here at FastCompany pride ourselves on the fact that our offices are in 7 World Trade Center, a building with gold-level LEED certification. So when EcoGeek published a list of the world's Top Ten Green Skyscrapers, it came as a ...READ»

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The Power of Renewal

BY John A. Byrne
Relevancy Score: 81
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:42 AM

This month's letter from the editor.READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  4 comments

Leadership: Tagged for a Leadership Challenge

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 71
Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 10:23 PM

I was recently asked to participate in a challenge called “Why Most Leadership Sucks, Including Yours…by John W. McKenna. I wasn’t thrilled with his languaging and told him as much on a previous Fast Company post to which he ...READ»

CAREERS   |  Comment

Open for Business

BY Ron Lieber
Relevancy Score: 68
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:14 AM

How do the owners and employees of a small restaurant in Brooklyn respond to a world-changing tragedy just a few miles away? Not by fleeing or closing, but by staying open for business and serving the needs of the neighborhood.READ»

Kenan Samms
CALI WILLIAMS YOST   |  2 comments

$10 Gas! The National Work+Life Flex Strategy

BY Cali Yost
Relevancy Score: 65
Mon May 12, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Some experts are beginning to predict that gas prices could climb as high as $10 a gallon in the next two to three years.  However, all of the solutions under consideration, such as developing alternative sources of energy, will ...READ»

Kenan Samms
WORK/LIFE   |  3 comments

Work/Life: Getting my front tire past NY's toughest gatekeepers

BY Lynette Chiang
Relevancy Score: 55
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 10:12 AM

It's fitting that my latest experiment relates to the "/" in work/life – the sliver of time spent getting to and from the carpeted cubicle, counter or cockpit. I've been conducting a test with the tikit, a new kind of folding ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Time to Take Stock

BY Anni Layne Rodgers
Relevancy Score: 52
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:14 AM

"We're not only fighting back militarily, but we're also fighting back with our values."READ»

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT   |  1 comment

Raise the Roof

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 52
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

SpectraSite is a small company with big real-estate holdings in the New York area: 1,200 rooftops. After September 11, SpectraSite did its part by searching for even more rooftops to handle the city's communications crisis.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS   |  13 comments

The Green Standard?

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:24 AM

LEED buildings get lots of buzz, but the point is getting lost.READ»

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JOHN LAUTNER   |  2 comments

A Year-Long 50th Birthday Party for Los Angeles' Mid-Century Buildings

BY Alissa Walker
Relevancy Score: 49
Sun Oct 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM

The L.A. Conservancy celebrates a half-century of modern architecture with a series of events, tours, and a website devoted to preservation and awareness.READ»

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MICHAEL CANNELL   |  Comment

The Post-Big Era: Will Small-Scale Ingenuity Replace Large-Scale Architecture?

BY Michael Cannell
Relevancy Score: 48
Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 1:30 PM

The extra-large architectural complex--art museums, libraries, office complexes--built so prolifically over the past decade are commonly described as expressions of civic pride. They might just as easily be called grandiose ...READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  Comment

In Today's Papers

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 48
Thu Sep 7, 2006 at 1:11 PM

What's worth reading: RIM launches multimedia BlackBerry "Research in Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of the iconic BlackBerry mobile e-mail device beloved by politicians, business leaders and celebrities, will launch its first ...READ»

SOCIAL PROBLEMS   |  Comment

Social Media as Time Transporter

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 47
Thu Nov 5, 2009 at 7:59 PM

Thirty-one years ago, the housemate with whom I’d found an apartment moved out, and I invited a poet friend of mine to take his place. We shared that apartment for several months, until he, too, moved on, and another friend moved ...READ»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  Comment

The Architecture of Hope

BY Paul C. Judge
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

Former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, passionate advocate of cities, outlines a plan for galvanizing New York, beginning with the rehabilitation of Penn Station.READ»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  Comment

The Architecture of Hope

BY Paul C. Judge
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:43 AM

Former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, passionate advocate of cities, outlines a plan for galvanizing New York, beginning with the rehabilitation of Penn Station.READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

New Rules of the Road

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:13 AM

What's it like up there, where legroom and stale peanuts used to be our biggest concerns? How are travelers navigating the new airport restrictions? Do you really need to check in two hours early? Share your firsthand accounts of airline travel today.READ»

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Business Fights Back: eBay Learns to Trust Again

BY George Anders
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:32 AM

The world's most successful Internet company is based on two pillars of growth: the global spread of Internet-style capitalism and confidence in the basic goodness of the people who do business on the site. Both ideas came under attack on September 11.READ»

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A Monument to Work?


Relevancy Score: 42
Wed Jun 28, 2006 at 12:02 PM

There's an interesting debate brewing in New York City over the design of the World Trade Center memorial. The original plan calls for the names of the 2,979 victims of the trade center terrorist acts in 1993 and 2001 to be listed ...READ»

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Who's Fast 2002

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 40
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:31 AM

Ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Our fourth-annual Who's Fast issue arrives at a time when our feelings about work, life, business, and purpose need thoughtful recalibration.READ»

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