By Kathleen Davis February 04, 2024 I’ve worked at Fast Company for more than a decade. My colleague Lydia Dishman, one of the other authors of Work Smarter, has been here for more than 15 years. In a career landscape where many switch jobs every few years, clearly we’ve found something about our jobs that … Continue reading How to find a job you’ll actually like
By Ryan McCarthy February 02, 2024 This year, something unusually dark is happening in an industry that is, by design, quite used to handling bad news. In a strong economy, with unemployment near a 50-year low, virtually every single part of the news business—digital media, local news, TV, print, podcasts, and documentaries—is laying off … Continue reading Why does journalism seem like it’s collapsing? Call it market failure
By Clint Rainey January 30, 2024 Google invented Google Maps. Apple gave us the iPod. Microsoft introduced PowerPoint. In each case, these technologies began elsewhere—as an idea generated by a startup that was perfected by a new owner with greater resources. Corporate America is full of fat piles of cash being dropped to snatch … Continue reading Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft aren’t as innovative as you think. Here’s why
By Nate Berg The typical Ikea store is a vast, circuitous warehouse chock full of all the imaginable things one might need to fill up a house. Even a disciplined shopper with a precise shopping list can expect to spend a lot of time barreling through the average store’s hundreds of thousands of square … Continue reading Ikea has a plan for the office of the future, and it looks a lot like coworking
By Jandra Sutton January 23, 2024 Quitting a job you love is rarely easy, even if you have another job waiting for you on the other side. On one hand, you might be leaving to accept a new role with a better salary or a new job title, which can make saying goodbye somewhat … Continue reading Here’s what it’s like to quit a job you love—and how to make it easier
By Rodney Williams January 12, 2024 Sam Bankman Fried, former founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty of wire fraud, conspiracy, and stealing as much as $10 billion in customer money. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, is serving an 11-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy over false claims she made to … Continue reading Op-ed: Why do VCs fund founders like Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes but not Black entrepreneurs?
By Chris Morris November 20, 2023 It’s going to be some time before the dust settles from the implosion of OpenAI’s management suite, but (for the moment at least), Microsoft appears to be the clear winner from the AI imbroglio. As of Monday morning (and given the rapidly shifting landscape in this story, it’s … Continue reading Why Microsoft looks like the real winner in the OpenAI drama
By Shalene Gupta October 31, 2023 Gender inequality is a global issue, but it doesn’t look the same everywhere. While on average there are about four women for every 10 men in a leadership role, in Asia this drops to one woman to every 10 men. Agoda, a travel platform based in Singapore, released … Continue reading What the workplace gender gap looks like in 10 countries across Asia
By Sarah Friar October 06, 2023 My greatest mistake was thinking success looked like a specific thing. For me, that was making partner at Goldman Sachs. When I didn’t, it set me free. I’m going to go back to the moment when things shifted for me. One morning in 2011—after 11 years on the partner … Continue reading ‘I felt like I had checked every box’: Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar’s career advice for someone who has been passed over for promotion
This Is What An Advanced Attribution Model Looks Like by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 21, 2023 Advanced attribution frameworks become more important as the advertising industry moves into channels that do not have the ability to click on media — at least for now — such as connected television (CTV) and generative artificial … Continue reading This Is What An Advanced Attribution Model Looks Like
