Fast Company

Meet Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative People of the Last 10 Years. In honor of Fast Company’s 10th anniversary of Innovation Festival, our editorial team identified 10 industrious leaders whose groundbreaking efforts defined the past decade in business. We spoke to these individuals about their extraordinary achievements across tech, medicine, entertainment, among other industries. Fast Company explored how the impact of these innovations has withstood passing fads, various presidential administrations, a pandemic, and many, many quarterly reports. Our fall print magazine will feature 10 unique covers, a first-of-its kind edition in the magazine’s nearly 30-year history. Discover the stories behind these 10 innovators: https://bit.ly/4dWuYCV

"You can't drink beer every day—unfortunately." https://f-st.co/n4PAGVd

Leadership Now Project CEO Daniella Ballou-Aares and I co-wrote an op-ed for Fast Company on the destabilizing impact businesses will face if a proposal to replace tens of thousands of career public servants with political appointees came to pass. Overnight, our government's fundamental goals would shift. Rather than decisions based on objective evidence and subject matter expertise, our government would serve the interests of an administration over the public good. For American taxpayers, and especially for businesses, this shift would constitute a rug-pull of historic proportions. What we need are bold but constructive reforms to support a more responsive government and preserve the stability of businesses—and the public—that need to thrive. Read more about what's at stake for businesses if career professionals are replaced with political appointees.

A select few companies can get away with clunky, ugly products. For the rest, beauty matters. https://f-st.co/GIkcqfx

"Plastic bags create pollution in our environment and break into microplastics that contaminate our drinking water and threaten our health." https://f-st.co/jQXI5M0

NATO is doubling down on cybersecurity at a time when hacks are at an all-time high. https://f-st.co/Zw7LrbV

As Lina Khan,?Federal Trade Commission?chair, describes during her panel at Fast Company’s 10th annual Innovation Festival: “Imagine a family where a kid has a nut allergy being charged more for the granola bars without nuts.” That's what dynamic pricing is: the ability for a company to change the pricing of a product—that is, raise it—at a given moment. In her work as?FTC?chair, Khan draws both fire and praise for her view that the harms induced by antitrust behavior can go beyond consumer prices. Read more about Khan, one of Fast Company’s Top 10 Innovators of the Last 10 Years: https://lnkd.in/gCRJTfcw ?#FCFestival?#FCIF10

As a new bear strolls curiously across the letters of LoveFrom’s website, it’s a charming evolution of its brand, and a metaphor for the firm’s approach to design. https://f-st.co/1dJNWEl

I love this piece from Diana Budds about a new park opening on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn. It's a story about who gets access to public space that is increasingly boxed in by luxury condos. The solution in this part of Brooklyn it seems, is to balance the inevitable (residential towers where rent starts at $5,000 a month) with amenities that the whole community can enjoy. In her piece, Diana looks at how a former industrial strip of riverfront land has transformed into leisure luxury space, and asks the question: who is NYC's waterfront really for? https://lnkd.in/ehePnD_e

Over 80% of recruiters admit that they post ads for jobs that either don’t exist or are already filled. Here’s why it happens and how to sniff them out. (by Lisa Rabasca Roepe)