Adam Hanft


Every Business Needs a Nanny

By Adam Hanft |  Mar 1, 2006

Does your business need a nanny?  Read story

Every Business Needs a Nanny

By Adam Hanft |  Mar 1, 2006

Does your business need a nanny?  Read story

Finding Your Voice

By Adam Hanft |  Mar 1, 2006

Like Melville or Hemingway, companies need a unique voice to reach customers in a meaningful way.  Read story

Grist: The Second-Mover Advantage

By Adam Hanft |  Jan 1, 2006

Despite all the business wisdom exhorting you to smash the rules and shatter the paradigms, it can be just as smart to let others do the trailblazing.  Read story

Grist: The Investment Trap

By Adam Hanft |  Dec 1, 2005

Companies that pump more money into R D do not show better results, in terms of growth or profitability. Yet R D spending continues to su...  Read story

Grist: Save the Founder

By Adam Hanft |  Oct 1, 2005

Every business--no matter how big or how "mature"--needs an entrepreneur at the helm.  Read story

The Problem With Confidence

By Adam Hanft |  Sep 1, 2005

Entrepreneurs are proud of their appetites for risk. But how much is enough?  Read story

The Joy of Conflict

By Adam Hanft |  Aug 1, 2005

The impulse is to seek workplace consensus. But sometimes it's better to fight.  Read story

Exaggeration Nation

By Adam Hanft |  Jul 1, 2005

Russell Simmon's big fib points to an unattractive fact: Few business owners tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  Read story

To Grow, or To Steal?

By Adam Hanft |  Jul 1, 2005

Grow or steal? That's one of the fundamental questions that marketers ask themselves when they look at how best to expand their businesses. Do I grow a...  Read story

It's the Sound Bite, Stupid

By Adam Hanft |  Jun 1, 2005

The sweet sound of success: It's one thing to have a great idea; it's another thing entirely to communicate.  Read story

A Message to My BlackBerry

By Adam Hanft |  May 1, 2005

A message to my BlackBerry: In January, I made a pledge to put you away. Instead, I'm more addicted than ever. How did our relationship become so dysfunctional?  Read story

The Research Riddle

By Adam Hanft |  May 1, 2005

Nature isn't the only one who abhors a vacuum. Most business people are similarly afflicted when confronted by an absence of information. Or at least we ...  Read story

The Case Against Loyalty

By Adam Hanft |  Apr 1, 2005

What's the biggest problem in American business? An excess of loyalty.  Read story

Remembering an Entrepreneur We Loved

By Adam Hanft |  Apr 1, 2005

Horace Hagedorn: an entrepreneur we loved.  Read story

What You Can Learn from Starbucks

By Adam Hanft |  Apr 1, 2005

Maybe it's because I've just spent some time in London, Paris, and Berlin -- and have seen the cultural success of Starbucks in locales whose immune syst...  Read story

In Praise of Privacy

By Adam Hanft |  Mar 1, 2005

These days, transparency is all the rage. But businesses need a little privacy -- and sometimes a lot of it.  Read story

Ready and Willing, But Are You Enabled?

By Adam Hanft |  Mar 1, 2005

In America we are taught that we make, shape, and create our own destinies. It's a religion with particular standing among entrepreneurs, who have fled ...  Read story

Extended Interview with David Blumenthal

By Adam Hanft |  Feb 1, 2005

Here's more from the February 2005 Inc. magazine interview with David Blumenthal, CEO of Lion Brand Yarn Company.  Read story

Reshuffling Your Cabinet

By Adam Hanft |  Feb 1, 2005

Stop hiring people. Instead, make like the President and appoint them to four-year terms.  Read story

Grist: An Entrepreneur's Resolutions

By Adam Hanft |  Jan 1, 2005

More nimbleness, less BlackBerry, and other new year's resolutions for 2005.  Read story

Is There a Grown-Up in the House?

By Adam Hanft |  Jan 1, 2005

A friend of mine, the well-known French anthropologist Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, is fond of saying that America is an adolescent culture. I am reminded of t...  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

By Adam Hanft |  Dec 1, 2004

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

By Adam Hanft |  Dec 1, 2004

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

Learn From Your Competitors

By Adam Hanft |  Dec 1, 2004

Spend some time studying the guy who wants to eat your lunch. You might learn something.  Read story

Grist: Politics, Passion -- and Profits

By Adam Hanft |  Nov 1, 2004

In politics and beyond, the marriage of passion and profit is a winning formula for entrepreneurs.  Read story

Pay Attention to Not Paying Attention

By Adam Hanft |  Nov 1, 2004

Are your employees regulated by a different clock than you are? Is there something about today's short-term, instant gratification, now-not-later culture...  Read story

How do I sell my product to the masses?

By Adam Hanft |  Nov 1, 2004

Ask the Expert Question: I have recently started my own company and incorporated it. What is a great marketing technique that will help ...  Read story

Grist: A Passport to America

By Adam Hanft |  Oct 1, 2004

How blue staters and red staters can learn to communicate and do business.  Read story

Set Your Sights High

By Adam Hanft |  Oct 1, 2004

Is your company a network or a cable channel? It's a critical taxonomy, and the question hit me as I was watching the Emmy's a few weeks ago. It's releva...  Read story

It's Swing Time

By Adam Hanft |  Sep 1, 2004

Corporate America is suffering from bipolar management disorder. Quick, put on some Ray Charles.  Read story

Courage to Charge More

By Adam Hanft |  Sep 1, 2004

Most businesspeople I know would do anything, anything other than raise their prices. Few prospects send as many corporate chills down as many corporate ...  Read story

Grist: Resisting the Power of Pedigree

By Adam Hanft |  Aug 1, 2004

In business, as in horseracing, good breeding can be overrated.  Read story

Internet Opportunities Small Businesses Overlook

By Adam Hanft |  Aug 1, 2004

The entrepreneurial edge. We've seen it in action and we know what it represents. The ability to respond quickly to opportunity. To see trends before the...  Read story

Don't Market Your Business

By Adam Hanft |  Aug 1, 2004

Like a child desperate for the attention of adults, companies of all kinds struggle for visibility in an era of intense competitive pressure across all f...  Read story

Grist: Beyond the Vale of Smiles

By Adam Hanft |  Jul 1, 2004

Come in out of the sun. Your employees are shining you on.  Read story

Soul Proprietor: Jon Bon Jovi

By Adam Hanft |  Jul 1, 2004

What's a rock star doing running a football team? Being entrepreneurial, for starters. Business owner Jon Bon Jovi talks with Inc. magazine.  Read story

The Big Deal About Niches

By Adam Hanft |  Jul 1, 2004

The phrase "niche marketing" contains within itself both highly attractive and self-limiting qualities. It's easy to detect a whiff of condescension bein...  Read story

War Economy: When Should You Attack Your Competition?

By Adam Hanft |  Jul 1, 2004

Are we living in an attack culture in America today? Sure seems so. With Fox News, Michael Moore, and the nuclear nature of political discourse in genera...  Read story

Grist: Why Bankruptcy is Bad for Business

By Adam Hanft |  Jun 1, 2004

The other reason entrepreneurs should fear bankruptcy.  Read story

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