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SPECIAL: FORTUNE 75th ANNIVERSARY PACKAGE
Part two of FORTUNE's 75th-anniversary celebration is devoted to decisions—and to helping people in the business world make better ones. "We wanted to create a package of delectably good reads," says senior writer Jerry Useem in his introduction to the package. "But visiting a flaming Colorado mountainside or the hallways of the Pentagon or the Siberian oil frontier isn't just a way of bringing decision-making alive. You'll come away with a set of ideas, tools, and questions that you can carry into any decision-making context."

• 20 That Made History
  The best decision-makers were capable of seeing the present as if it were already the past. FORTUNE looks at 20 decisions—going back as far as 1876—that shed light on how people can change the course of history. Some of these decisions were exceedingly good, some hideously bad—but all were important.



• Jim Collins on Tough Calls
  When FORTUNE asked business guru Jim Collins to discuss the art of decision-making, he pored over years of research and interviews he had amassed to write his popular books. In a conversation with senior writer Jerry Useem, Collins explores business history through the lens of decision-making—and comes up with surprising insights.



• The Wisdom of Dumb Questions, page 157
  The "dumb question" can cut to the heart of the matter, posing a blunt challenge to someone or something—an authority, a policy, the established order. Geoff Colvin looks at a powerful insight into business success: Dumb questions lead to smart decisions.

Gates and Ozzie: How to Escape E-mail Hell, by David Kirkpatrick, page 65
For years, Bill Gates called Ray Ozzie—the inventor and programmer of Lotus Notes—"the best programmer who doesn't work for Microsoft." Now that Gates has purchased Ozzie's startup, Groove Networks, which enables teams of workers to create shared online spaces in which they can collaborate on documents, both men plan to come up with better collaboration software and other tools to help workers get beyond today's e-mail travails. In their first-ever joint interview, they tell David Kirkpatrick how technology will shape the way people work in the next decade.

Cops of the Global Village, by Marc Gunther, page 68
The drive to meet rising global standards of one kind or another is affecting just about every multinational FORTUNE 500 company, and U.S.-based companies that sell globally are scrambling to comply with an array of European environmental laws that are much stricter than those they face home. But as Marc Gunther reports, though American companies roam the globe in search of low-cost labor, many export health and safety standards when they open factories in the developing world, while others keep an eye on suppliers to avoid having a sweatshop label attached to their brand.

PLUS: FORTUNE Global Forum
Three FORTUNE editors tackle issues raised at FORTUNE's Global Forum in Beijing in May. In China Rising, Rik Kirkland asks if the U.S. will be flattened by a flatter world. In Fast Forward, David Kirkpatrick explains why China won't protect intellectual property until its own products need protection. And in Value Driven, Geoff Colvin posits that China is on the verge of creating its own brands—and that Western companies need to prepare for a new kind of Chinese competition.

DEPARTMENTS
In FIRST: Calling Off the Dogs An era of corporate crime fighting is ending. What's to keep fraudsters from striking again? Offshoring: A Reality Check Despite all the apprehension, just a fraction of the world's service jobs can be outsourced to developing countries. Intel Wins a Date With Steve Jobs Intel's deal with Apple could give the chipmaker more bite in hot consumer markets. GM's New Crop: Hot or Not? Desperate for some positive buzz, GM is previewing future models. Heineken Loses Its Head—And Gains a New Leader Can Belgian Jean François van Boxmeer revive the troubled Dutch brewer? Picture ThisChina's pollution-mobiles. Gadgets Introducing video-un-demand. In INVESTING: On Google, Bubbles, and Market Madness Former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget shows how buying during a frenzy is saner than it might appear. Why Does Google Keep Rising? The search giant has everything going its way.

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