Leigh Buchanan


Managing Millennial Workers

For fast-growing companies, today’s college kids are tomorrow’s top employees. University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann tells managers what to ex...  Read story

The Postrecession Labor Market

What will happen when companies start hiring again? PayScale CEO Michael Metzger weighs in.  Read story

Understanding the Consumer of the Future

John Gerzema of Young and Rubicam talks about how the Great Recession will change consumer buying habits.  Read story

Review: Power

Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why some people become powerful and others do not.  Read story

Org Chart Innovation

Is your company looking to add a few fun titles to the org chart? Here are some that you should consider adopting.  Read story

How to Coach Employees

Larry O'Toole of Gentle Giant Moving Company talks about how to give employees feedback.  Read story

The 48 Hours Rule

Want more employee ideas? Keep your "Approved" and "Rejected" stamps poised.  Read story

Legacy: Jack Friedman, 1940–2010

Toymaker Jack Friedman, who gave us the Cabbage Patch dolls, always knew what kids would want next.  Read story

The Art of the Spinoff

Maya Design grows by spinning off companies such as Luma Institute and Rhiza Labs.  Read story

Five Tips for Launching Spinoffs

How Maya Design grows by spinning off businesses  Read story

How Grasshopper Grows By Creating New Companies

The virtual voicemail systems provider is using spin-offs to reach its goal of serving one million small businesses.  Read story

A Look Inside the Un-Factory

Good friends, good food, good times. Yes, this is a chemical company, but it feels less like a factory than a combination greenhouse and family garage.  Read story

Great Workplaces By the Numbers

Impressive statistics from the 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces winners and finalists.  Read story

Opening the Books and Motivating Workers

How companies such as Pool Covers and Ginger Bay Salon & Spa use open-book management to get the best out of their employees.  Read story

Creating Your Own Company University

Employees of SnagAJob.com conduct business seminars and continuing education classes for their coworkers.  Read story

Letting Employees Run the Company

To manage themselves, the employees of Tasty Catering studied the principles that author Jim Collins espoused in Good to Great .  Read story

Curveball Job Interview Questions

All4 has potential hires answer a series of hypothetical questions. Here are some of the answers.  Read story

How to Make New Employees Feel at Home

To get new workers up to speed quickly, Van Meter Industrial employs a four-step onboarding process.  Read story

How to Improve Your Employees' Work-Life Balance

Telecommuting, daycare, and other employee benefits help workers balance their duties at work and at home.  Read story

Giving Back as a Company

At Torch Technologies, employees run and fund a nonprofit that gives charity donations.  Read story

What's Your Company's Personality?

Why employees at Dixon Schwabl put their entire firm a Myers Briggs–type personality test.  Read story

The Price of a Healthy Staff

Three companies share their employee wellness budgets.  Read story

How to Fix a Toxic Workplace

Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of The Human Equation, on how to save an unhappy workplace.  Read story

The Power of Mutual Mentorship

Agatha Kessler, CEO of Fentress Architects, talks about how her firm trains its employees to mentor one another.  Read story

Human Resources: Generous from the Get-Go

Amy Carr talks about the role of HR in creating a top workplace.  Read story

Training: Auto Didacts

Dealer.com spent 14 months creating UFuel, an online learning system that employees use for everything from mastering software basics to deepening the expert...  Read story

Leadership Development: Who's Next?

Tracy Hart, CEO of the $121 million general-contracting company Tarlton Corp. in St. Louis wants to be prepared. So she is drawing up succession plans for ...  Read story

PortionPac: The World's Coolest Chemical Company

PortionPac's worker-friendly environment consists of fine art and palm trees. Did we mention it's a chemical factory?  View slideshow

Review: The 2020 Workplace

Authors Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd describe ways companies can attract and retain innovative thinkers.  Read story

Review: Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

Authors Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon take a look at the fundamentals of exceptional customer service.  Read story

Legacy: Frank N. Magid

The creator of Action News transformed local newscasts  Read story

Company Logos for Less

Companies claim to design stellar business logos for half the price. How good are they? We put four services to the test.  Read story

Review: The Responsibility Revolution

In The Responsibility Revolution, Seventh Generation founder Jeffrey Hollender makes the case for sustainability.  Read story

Is Your Company Ready to Go Virtual?

Take this quiz to find out.  Read story

15 Ways to Be More Efficient

What does it take to be superefficient? We interviewed successful entrepreneurs in various industries around the country, including Mark Cuban, Caterina Fake...  View slideshow

Serious Materials to Green the Empire State Building

Kevin Surace, winner of Inc. 's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award, talks about winning a multi-million dollar contract to replace all the windows in ...  Read story

Obituary: William J. Powell, 1916-2009

Remembering the life of the first and only African American to build, own, and operate a golf course  Read story

Bizarre Hiring Rituals

How companies like Gentle Giant use odd hiring practices to induct new recruits  Read story

The Chief Recruiter: Kevin P. Ryan of AlleyCorp

Kevin P. Ryan's encore to DoubleClick—the ad-serving behemoth he sold for $1.1 billion to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman in 2005&mda...  Read story

The Free Thinker: Caterina Fake of Hunch

Organization can be counterproductive for creative types like Caterina Fake, co-founder of the photo-sharing site Flickr. She gets the most done when ...  Read story