A TrainingZone member brings the Fast Company website to our attention. Fast Company is excited by the way business is changing in a global revolution. Standardised ways of doing things are changing, and new 'fast companies' are changing the way things get done.
The site aims to be a 'Handbook for the Business Revolution'. If offers ideas, discussion, meeting points and some great reading. Part of the site presents material on a range of Themes, including
- New Ways of Working
- The Digital Domain
- Careers
- New Logic of Competition
- Learning
- Change
- Leadership
The following is based on the Mission statement presented by Fast Company:
"A global revolution is changing business, and business is changing the world. With unsettling speed, two forces are converging: a new generation of business leaders is rewriting the rules of business, and a new breed of fast companies is challenging the corporate status quo.
That convergence overturns 50 years of received wisdom on the fundamentals of work and competition. No part of business is immune. The structure of the company is changing; relationships between companies are changing; the nature of work is changing; the definition of success is changing. The result is a revolution as far-reaching as the Industrial Revolution.
"We are just beginning to comprehend this new world even as we create it. This much we know: we live and work in a time of unparalleled opportunity and unprecedented uncertainty. An economy driven by technology and innovation makes old borders obsolete. Smart people working in smart companies have the ability to create their own futures -- and also hold the responsibility for the consequences. The possibilities are unlimited -- and unlimited possibilities carry equal measures of hope and fear.
"Fast Company aims to be the handbook of the business revolution. We will chronicle the changes under way in how companies create and compete, highlight the new practices shaping how work gets done, showcase teams who are inventing the future and reinventing business. Most of all, we will equip the people exploring this uncharted territory with the tools, techniques, models, and mind-sets they need.
Fast Company is where best practice meets big ideas; new talent meets innovative tools; the emerging business community meets the emerging conversation about the future of business."
