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Fast Company Fast 50 and Mitch Joel

I love referring to myself in the third-party. Makes me feel like a old-skool rap star. A very kind person took a lot of their personal time and put together the following profile and entered me into this year’s Fast 50 from Fast Company Magazine.
My entry is titled, Giver’s Gain – Profit With A Difference, and you can view it here. I’m not sure if this is a popularity contest or not but they are looking for people to comment, so if you don’t mind hoping over there (if you have something nice to say 😉 it would be greatly appreciated. Again, please comment on the Fast Company link here and not below (as those come only to me).
According to the site, “The Fast 50 is Fast Company magazine’s annual readers’ challenge, a worldwide search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Our goal is to remind the world of all the good that’s created when passionate people with big ideas and strong convictions are determined to make a difference.”
In case you live under a rock, Fast Company Magazine is “the only idea-driven business title. It provides impact players in business with the best thinking, best tools and best practices to outsmart and outperform the competition. Fast Company is about innovation, creativity, leadership, and vision.”
Fast Company is one of my favorite print publications and man, would it be cool to be a part of this year’s Fast 50. Even if I don’t make the Fast 50, I’m just honored that someone took their own time to do this for me. Very cool. Very unnecessary. Very thoughtful.

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.