 Report from the
Future
Virtually every facet of the business world is changing: the relentless
advance of digital technology, the globalization of competition among the
industrial powers, the triumph of capitalism in the developing world, the
deregulation of vast industries such as telecommunications and energy,
plus a generational shift in which younger people are getting more authority
and bringing to their jobs innovative ideas about work styles, lifestyles,
and why people work in the first place.
In this dynamic presentation, Polly LaBarre equips you for your unpredictable
trip into the future of business. She offers concise reports on cutting-edge
tools, techniques, and ideas; new tactics and metrics to help companies
improve; and on the people whose titles, jobs, and skills suggest how we'll
all be working in the years ahead....
 Polly
LaBarre is Senior Editor of Fast Company Magazine. She has edited
the magazine's Report From The Future RFTF section - which focuses on the
new culture of success, and the future of working, competing, and living.
Before joining FC Polly was New York Bureau Editor of IndustryWeek, a bi-weekly
management magazine. There she was book review editor and covered a broad
arena of management theory. She also co-produced IW's interactive service
and a series of executive conferences.
In a previous life, Polly did time in New York's book
publishing scene as an assistant literary scout for foreign book publishers
and Steven Spielberg's production house, Amblin, with Maria Campbell Associates.
She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a BA in Literature.
The premiere issue of Fast Company hit newsstands
in November 1995. Since its debut, the magazine has celebrated unprecedented
publishing success. Fast Company was named 1996's "Launch
of the Year" by Advertising Age and "Startup of the Year" by Adweek.
It was named 1998's "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age and recently
won the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
More than 12,000 people in more than 50 cities around
the world belong to the "Company of Friends"-Fast Company clubs, where
members share ideas and challenges, both in person and over the Web. Increasingly,
Fast Company is not just a magazine-it's a movement of people committed
to new ways of working and competing.
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