Leigh Buchanan


Skimmer's Guide: The Wide Lens

Reviewing The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation , by Ron Adner.  Read story

What Drives Entrepreneurs?

Researchers have learned the half dozen motivations that drive people to become entrepreneurs. Read story

The Most Accomplished, Best-Connected Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of

After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage.  Read story

How to Be an Elegant Leader

Plenty of leaders seek to boost their performance by becoming stronger, more agile, more forceful. Matthew E. May has a whole different strategy.  Read story

Book Review: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Author and journalist Charles Duhigg explores the power of habits--including how savvy marketers use them to activate consumer spending.  Read story

We Will Be the Best-Run Business in America

Larry Potterfield, founder of the shooting-supply company MidwayUSA, is obsessed with management excellence: quantifying it, developing systems to produce it...  Read story

Do You Drop the L-Word?

The idea of leadership is changing. Is it being overused so much that it is rendered nearly meaningless? Leigh Buchanan speaks with Ronald Riggio.  Read story

Skimmer's Guide: All Business is Local

Marketing today is all about geography, as companies try to appeal to local tastes on a global scale, writes John A. Quelch.  Read story

Book Review: Too Big to Know

Author David Weinberger's latest ponders how knowledge-"previously a finite body of expert opinion and accepted fact-"is now unbound, thanks to the Internet.  Read story

Book Review: The Rare Find

Author George Anders on how to find and recruit the best employees.  Read story

Book Review: Demand

Authors Adrian J. Slywotzky and Karl Weber offer tips on creating what people love before they know they want it.  Read story

The New World of Open-Source Mentoring

Some businesses are using social networks to find mentors for their staff.  Read story

The Fastest-Growing Private Company of 2011

Paul Hurley of ideeli, the midmarket fashion juggernaut, on how he rose to the top of this year's Inc. 500  Read story

Growth Is in Overdrive on This Year’s Inc. 500

Companies that create jobs create the future, as Inc. 500 companies have been proving for 30 years. See these people here? Now it’s their turn.  Read story

How SAS Continues to Grow

James Goodnight’s software company, SAS, appeared on Inc.’s first list of fast-growing companies, in 1981, and it has grown every year since. He...  Read story

My Story: Krishnan Menon of Phenomenon

Why this advertising and marketing company, which develops marketing campaigns for entertainment networks, consumer companies, and inventors, stays out of view  Read story

America’s Fastest-Growing Advertising Company

C2C Outdoor tracks the best outdoor spaces for advertising.  Read story

America’s Fastest-Growing Logistics & Transportation Company

Shipito.com is making use of the extra space in its warehouse by helping U.S. companies ship their products to their international customers.  Read story

America’s Fastest-Growing Retail Company

Ideeli sells apparel, accessories, shoes, and home and travel items through a members-only shopping site.  Read story

Book Review: The Progress Principle

Authors Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer look at how to improve employee morale and productivity.  Read story

Superstar Alumni of the Inc. 500

A look back at how 20 companies from the past 30 years have created 575,457 jobs.  Read story

Notable Features Through the Years

Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content and walks us through the highlights.  Read story

Out of the Coma. Back to the Office.

Rob McGovern is the same driven entrepreneur he was before his horrific car accident. Except that now his brain works differently.  Read story

Rethinking Employee Awards

I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies.  Read story

Book Review: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Author Richard P. Rumelt offers three simple steps to developing a strategy for your business.  Read story

A Brief History of Time Management

What are the major milestones in productivity throughout history? Here's a timeline of key events that helped increase human efficiency, including the commer...  View slideshow

How We Did It: Superfly Presents

The brains behind Bonnaroo talk about their early days in New Orleans, promoting music festivals, and the perks of doing what they love for a living.  Read story

Book Review: We First

Author Simon Mainwaring looks at how brands and consumers can use social media to build a better world.  Read story

Core Values of the Top Small Company Workplaces

The crucial element in well-run companies? Leaders who know what they believe in.  Read story

Where the CEO Is Just Another Guy With a Vote

At Namasté Solar, nothing is more important than the idea of workplace democracy.  Read story

Walking the Walk (Running the Run, Etc.)

TRX sells fitness, to customers and to employees.  Read story

You'll Never Work Alone

At Menlo Innovations, all work (seriously, all work) is done by pairs.  Read story

Survival of the Smartest

Hopkins Printing has staked its future on cross-training.  Read story

Book Review: Little Bets

Author Peter Sims addresses the idea of creative innovation.  Read story

Finding Jobs for Ex-offenders

How Sweet Beginnings offers a second chance to those who need it most  Read story

The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011

University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 w...  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Technology Venturing

Helping to turn university technologies into sustainable businesses  Read story

What the Students Say: Technology Venturing

Samit Gupta was pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering—until he took this course.  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship

A class that brings together 485 students to work on a series of new ventures  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Mayfield Fellows

Providing students with a front-row seat to all the drama that Silicon Valley has to offer  Read story