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Thanksgiving is a feast of sports, mainly football, as well as of turkey. Dan Wooldridge shares some links and lessons learned about life, business, and the economy from sports.
Glenn McMahan, InsideWork's man in Brazil unfolds the story of principled leadership that rescued Brazil's economy from 40 years of hyper-inflation.
Glenn McMahan / Jul 22 2008
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Glenn McMahan, InsideWork's man in Brazil examines the failures of leadership that led to 14.2 quadrillion percent inflation over 40 years.
Glenn McMahan / Jul 22 2008
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Juli Ann Reynolds, CEO and President of the Tom Peters Company (Peters is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his classic In Search of Excellence), asks if retirement (and, we presume, death) is the new downsizing.
Jim Hancock / Oct 31 2007
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Every work day, Fast Company team members, contributors, and special guests will offer frequent short, sharp, and substantial entries. FC Now posts will feature new ideas, address business news and current events, share useful Web resources and tools, highlight crucial conferences and news services, and otherwise shed light on the Fast Company team's perspective on the world of work.
Sam Nguyen / Jul 2 2006
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Dan Wooldridge visits the way back machine for perspective on what's happening in these days—and finds a standard against which to measure what counts now more than ever.
Morgan Spurlock, who took on McDonalds in "Super Size Me," is taking on the whole of retail excess in his holiday spendtacular spoof, "What Would Jesus Buy?"
Jim Hancock / Nov 28 2008
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We only need to open a newspaper to find that our relationally designed world is fragmented and frayed. Distrust shadows our business dealings and, in this moment, our entire economy. News stories about the current economic crisis lead us to believe the problem is a lack of confidence in the financial markets.
Glenn McMahan / Oct 23 2008
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As President Bush faces Congress and the American people tonight, the Pew Research Center finds about one third of Americans (34%) rank current economic conditions as excellent or good.
More than four in ten US adults expect the national economy will be in better shape a year from now than it is today