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The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right

In 1997, Gary Vaynerchuk launched Winelibrary.com, and helped grow his family business from $3 million to $60 million in seven years. Here he explains marketing in an Internet world.

Khan Academy and Google-backed personal genomics company 23andMe are partnering to teach the world about genomes and DNA. Khan Academy has added two series of videos made by 23andMe to its roster of educational clips. Appropriately enough, the two announced their partnership today, National DNA Day , a day the National Human Genome Research Institute created to mark two momentous events in genetics research: the day in 1953 when James Watson and Francis Crick revealed their work on DNA structure to the world, and the day in 2003 when it was announced that the Human Genome Project was almost complete.

Bot Vid: The Naval Robot That Fights Fires The Navy has a big plan to put smart gesture-controlled bipedla firebots onto ships. These droids are able to scramble through compartments designed for human access, so they'd be invaluable in a crisis, and they can handle fires that humans cannot. The plan needs much research, and the Octavia bot shows a step along the way.

T-Mobile tries on a new, tougher image in its advertising.

At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, things got heated between Reddit and Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian and USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, former tour manager of The Band, and friend of its drummer Levon Helm, who died the day after this debate. On Wednesday,

New psychological research shows that mild intoxication can actually boost creative problem solving. So, go ahead

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and shame. This week: senseless workplace policies

At $5.5 million and growing, Pebble becomes the most highly funded Kickstarter project ever.

Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo, a website where anyone can raise money, talks about the impact recent crowdfunding legislation will have on his firm and those looking for financing.

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. Cell phone bill shock is a nasty problem for many customers in the U.S. on a regular basis, and it's not much of a surprise when the industry is rife with nickel-and-dime practices for adding to your bill.

The simple, beautiful publishing service was one of the first to defeat vowels in tech company names. Now it's gunning for anything called a "blog." The "Ablogalypse" is nigh, and Tumblr is the format's Mad Max. Time to start stocking up on canned goods and bandwidth, bloggers

Why you can no longer convince someone to buy something that's not in his best interest, and what you can do about it. A good friend recently asked me about how sales organizations balance customer-centric thinking with making their number and closing sales.

It's not enough to have a great product anymore. Consumers want to buy into company culture

Mark Coker of Smashwords became the leader of indie e-book writers--including some with dirty minds--in a fight against censorship and PayPal. He also has strong feelings about the DOJ's e-book pricing lawsuit.