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Fast Company October 2002 Charles Fishman |
Miracle of Birth Looking for inspired leadership, passionate employees, unsurpassed productivity, and grateful customers? Look to the bursting-with-life corridors of Parkland Memorial Hospital, a remarkable place that delivers more than 16,000 babies per year -- more babies than any other U.S. hospital.  |
Fast Company October 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Vintage Values It's a popular dream, almost a cliche: Hard-charging businesspeople buy a Napa Valley vineyard and live the good life. But for Garen and Shari Staglin, proprietors of the Staglin Family Vineyard, it is neither a dream nor a cliche -- and it's as demanding as it is glamorous.  |
Fast Company October 2002 Daniel H. Pink |
Just Like the Rest of Us We've heard all the proposals for reform. More oversight. Tighter controls. Tougher penalties. Here's a radical idea! What if CEOs had to earn their pay?  |
Fast Company October 2002 Douglas McGray |
"Please Stay on the Line" What do call-center companies tell each other? Press 1 to find out.  |
Fast Company October 2002 Fara Warner |
How to Stay Loose in a Tight Spot These days, any businessperson is fair game in a crisis. What do you do when they come after you?  |
Fast Company October 2002 Fara Warner |
In The Hot Seat Lawrence A. Zimmerman, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Xerox, has to return a once-proud company to liquidity and profitablility by being conservative and persistent -- and never fudging the numbers again.  |
Fast Company October 2002 Kreamer & Andersen |
Culture Corporate synergy was all a big mistake. Nature is hardwired for antisynergy. Maybe the link between corporate scale and urban design is the notion of natural balance.  |
Fast Company October 2002 John Ellis |
Strategy If adversity is the test of character, then so far, today's CEOs are failing miserably. By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers.  |
Fast Company October 2002 |
Are You Too Scared to Be at This Movie? The right attitude for businesspeople today: If you're not scared, then you're not paying attention. If you're not having fun, then you're probably not doing a good job.  |
Wired October 2002 James Surowiecki |
The Future of AOL: Spin Off and Prosper An open letter to Steve Case detailing how AOL can win again by splitting from Time warner and rebuilding with broadband at its core.  |
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