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Fast Company And Business 2.0 – Magazines To Read

You would think in this fast-paced world of free e-newsletters and today’s newspapers becoming later that morning’s fishwrap that the soulful art of magazine publishing would be going the way of Michael Jackson’s marketability.
Fact is if you’re not reading Fast Company and Business 2.0 monthly you’re missing out. No, they’re not paying me for this (I actually have a paid subscription to both). I truly believe that page after page offers insanely intense content on who’s doing what, why and how.
Sure, over the years it could be argued that the magazines have changed (some say for the better, some say for the worse), but ultimately they have a huge value add and link directly into very robust websites.
I’m not asking you to join the Montreal Business Book Club (well, actually I am) or commit to something overly time-consuming. I am saying to drop the $50 per year to stay in the loop, get new ideas and business brainstorm your guts out on a monthly basis.
It’s a cheap barrier to entry to be an agent of change.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.