George Gendron


The Other California Recount

The Employment Development Department of California revises its numbers due to the undercounting of small-business jobs.  Read story

Confidence Game

Survey results from a Business Week poll measuring confidence in various institutions.  Read story

Making Sense

Review of 'The Death of Common Sense' by Philip K. Howard.  Read story

Pomp and Circumstance

Introduction to an abridged version of Robert A. Heinemman's article about commencement addresses.  Read story

Modern Technology Phone Conversation

Excerpt from a phone conversation about modern technology.  Read story

The Power of Positive Thinking

The Department of Ecology attempts to reduce hazardous waste in the automotive industry without imposing fines.  Read story

What to Tell the Kids

'JobShift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs' is recommended reading for teenagers.  Read story

The Real Female Advantage

Survey results show that women make better managers.  Read story

The $52 Toilet-Paper Roll and Other Hazards of Closed Books

A company discovers an error in its accounting system when it opens its books to employees.  Read story

What CEOs are Reading

A CEO shares what he learned from reading 'The Fifth Discipline'.  Read story

Excerpt from an article by John Seabrook

Excerpt from an article by John Seabrook about what it's like to work at MTV.  Read story

The Next Generation

Results of a survey of high school students on their attitudes about entrepreneurship.  Read story

More Grist for the Jobs Debate

Statistics from the Small Business Administration's 'Small Business Advocate'.  Read story

Ode to the Dunlop Commission

Thoughts about the Dunlop Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations and open-book management.  Read story

What Makes a Company Great?

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview and review of J. Collins and J. Porras's book 'Built to Last.'  Read story

Onward Through the Fog

Inc.'s editor-in-chief reviews General A.M. Gray's book 'Warfighting,' and finds it a must read.  Read story

Home Alone--Not

A CEO offers a lighthearted comment on how he decided it was time to move his company out of his house.  Read story

Stock Marketing

Inc.'s editor-in-chief discusses the growing popularity of direct offerings as a way of taking a company public.  Read story

Hope for California

A quick look at some data and a debate concerning California's soft economy.  Read story

How to Get the Star Players...

Inc.'s editor-in-chief dispells some myths about small businesses recruiting talent from larger companies.  Read story

Making A Difference

Inc.'s editor-in-chief reviews B. Fromm and L. Schlesinger's book, 'The Real Heroes of Business.'  Read story

Forget Politics as Usual: We're Mad as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It. . .

Inc.'s editor-in-chief comments on successful entrepreneurs who feel compelled to run for public office.  Read story

Just Did It

A quote from Donald Katz's 'Just Do It: The NIke Spirit in the Corporate World,' concerning Nike's turnaround.  Read story

Drucker: The Movie

A comment on the use of Peter Drucker's material by Whit Stillman in his movie "Barcelona."  Read story

The Great Game Redux

Inc.'s editor-in-chief reviews events from The Second Annual Gathering of Games in St. Louis.  Read story

Working Twice As Hard for the Same Results (And How to Stop)

Inc.'s editor-in-chief discusses the high level of stress in today's workplace and what can be done to lessen it.  Read story

Brewed Awakening

A microbrewer explains the distribution alliance between Anheuser-Busch and Redhook Ale Brewery and its effects.  Read story

Start-Up Fact and Fiction

Coleman Chairholder in Entrepreneurial Studies at Marquette University, Paul Reynolds, talks to Inc's editor-in-chief.  Read story

Teed Off

Two operators of a Long Island, N. Y. golf course discuss how they rid their links of geese and, thus, "goose poops."  Read story

Economic Street Talk: Superficial Strength

A CEO takes a real-world look at the economy and feels that businesspeople had better plan for bleaker times ahead.  Read story

Extra! Extra! Men and Women Are Different

Inc's editor-in-chief takes a look at the National Assoc. of Women Business Owners report "Styles of Success."  Read story

What CEOs Are Reading

A book review by a CEO of Bob Woodward's book 'The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House.'  Read story

CEO Dreams

Seventeen CEOs from the Inc. 500 share their personal dreams, which range from finding a cure for AIDS to Heli-skiing.  Read story

Jurassic Park

Inc.'s editor-in-chief and several CEOs comment briefly on new difficulties facing small business.  Read story

Closing the Books

Inc.'s editor-in-chief talks to a CEO about how his company changed its information sharing policy after going public.  Read story

Regional Forecast

A CEO gives Inc.'s editor-in-chief regional ecomonic forecasts.  Read story

Highlights from Our Annual Inc. 500 Conference

Editor-in-chief George Gendron's thoughts on the Inc. 500 companies.  Read story

Re-employment That Kills Jobs

Quote on job generation and public policy.  Read story

Tastes Great...Less Filling

The job-generation debate detracts attention from the truly vital issues.  Read story

Bootstrapping: The Musical

Lines from 'Bootstrapping: The Art of Deceit.'  Read story