13 Ways of Looking at a Leader
Want to be a better leader? Or find management inspiration, at least? Here you can learn from a baker's dozen of the most prevalent types. Read story
Leigh Buchanan
Creating a Silicon Valley on the High Seas
Offshore incubator Blueseed will help entrepreneurs who can't get U.S. visas get their start-ups off the ground. Read story
Are You Living for the Short Term?
How Will You Measure Your Life? challenges readers to question which opportunities to pursue and whether to act for the long or short term. Read story
Recognizing Great Ideas From the Developing World
Innovation isn't the trickle-down process we often imagine it to be. Two authors envision the developing world as a fertile research-and-development lab for ... Read story
Innovation in House Painting? That's Right
Brian Scudamore is creating 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a national franchise that promises to paint your whole house in a day. Read story
This Man Can't Stop Innovating
The genius of Moses Kizza Musaazi: He's an inventor, entrepreneur, fixer of things that are broken in the troubled country of Uganda. Read story
Leadership Advice: Strike a Pose
Want to become an effective leader? Watch the way you sit, stand, and posture, says a Harvard B-School professor. Read story
Why CEOs Need to Think Less About Strategies
Patrick Lencioni says that fielding smart strategies is less important than building a healthy and effective organization. Read story
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
