There He Goes Again
Our old friend Milt Kuolt checked in recently with the not-so-startling news that he's at it again -- starting companies, that is. The founder of Thousan... Read story
Lucien Rhodes
At The Crossroads
After 10 years, Bill Wilson has discovered that the very traits that fed his early success no longer seem to work. He can no longer control every event in th... Read story
The Return Of Billy Jack
Tom Laughlin has set out to do for videocassettes what Amway did for household products and Domino's did for pizza Read story
The Dream Makers
Here's the rare Wall Street shop that builds its LBOs around people, not numbers -- and makes a killing in the process Read story
Update: Export Controls Kachajian's Revenge
Finally, in one of the longest reenactments of David and Goliath on record, "Kachajian's Rebellion" (INC., October 1986) has brought reward to the just.Read story
Update: Morse Tool "we Really Could've Made It'
Like a "stove" boat out of its hometown's whaling past, historic Morse Cutting Tool is about to go under -- ending what readers will remember ("Against Al... Read story
Cosmic Marketing
Halley's Comet has come and gone, but Owen W. Ryan Jr. is still flying high. "Can you believe it?" asks Ryan, nearly buried by some 27,000 letters inquiri... Read story
High On The Hog
In the end, they'll call it corporate vision. But to Don Beaver, it looks more like years of false starts, wrong turns, and belated inspiration. Read story
Piano Man
Although Santi Falcone may make the world's best piano, people won't buy it till the world's best pianists play it. And the world's best pianists won't play ... Read story
Against All Odds
Even with his union and the governor on his side, turning around a troubled company in a troubled industry has proved tricky business for Jim Lambert. Read story
Folklore has it that deer, dogs, and all manner of creatures great and small have a mysterious ability to warn of such approaching calamities as storms an... Read story
William Gore 1912-1986
DURING AN INTERVIEW IN THE summer of 1982, Bill Gore, founder of W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., now well known for its Gore-tex products, taught me a ne... Read story
New Products;
ARE YOU TIRED OF ALL THOSE wimpy soft drinks being fobbed off as real soda these days by the big bottlers? Well, hold on to your pop-tops: help is on the... Read story
Kachajian's Rebellion
The story of how one small manufacturere spent six years fighting to save his business from the deadening hand of government export controls -- and won. Sort... Read story
Triple A Rating
It's not how you play the game that counts, just how you pack the stands. So says Patty Cox Hampton, who has turned around what may have been the worst franc... Read story
The Turnaround
How a dying division of International Harvester became one of America's most competitive small companies. Read story
That's Easy For You To Say
An obsession with "corporate culture" can be worse than no culture at all. Just ask the man who wrote the book on the subject. Read story
Kuolt's Complex
Sooner or later, every successful entrepreneur has to face the possibility that his company has outgrown him. Milt Kuolt did it twice, and it wasn't any easi... Read story
"being Dead Is Bad For Business"
A growing number of businesspeople are looking beyond the survival of their own companies -- and becoming outspoken participants in the nuclear arms debate. Read story
The Passion Of Robert Swiggert
Seventeen years ago, the president of a small electronics company looked at the business he had built and realized that it had turned hostile and threatening... Read story
Will Success Spoil Jerry Gorde?
On the road to the revolution, a young radical took a detour and wound up as CEO of a $6-million company. Read story
That Daring Young Man And His Flying Machines
The fastest-growing company in the history of aviation has a problem. It has designed a product so popular that it can't satisfy demand. Read story
Spontaneous Combustion
The decade-old revival of the wood-stove industry is cooling as quickly as it heated up. Upstart market leader Vermont Castings counts on the reputation it h... Read story
The Un-manager
No ranks, no titles, nothing but profits. W. L. Gore Associates has an unusual approach to management structure -- none at all. Read story
The Importance Of Being Arthur
"My whole philosophy," says Arthur Imperatore, "is that we build men. Incidentally, we move freight." By practicing what he preaches, he's driven A-P-A Trans... Read story
Sole Success
The Swartz brothers combined old-time quality, a new sales strategy, and a lot of luck to move their boots from Army-Navy stores to Saks in just two years. Read story
"they Took My Name But They Didn't Get My Goat"
Taylor Wine Company prevented Walter S. Taylor from using his name on his own wines. Says Walter Read story
How Thousand Trails Got Out Of The Woods
Founder Milt Kuolt strangled himself with debt to build a network of 14 idyllic camping preserves. Read story
Just A Poor, Dumb Dirt Farmer
Colonel Gregory is the fifth generation to farm the rich dirt of Virginia. Truth be told, he's a lot smarter than he makes out to be. Read story
Winning Is A State Of Mind At Nike
Three running enthusiasts teamed up and turned a fad into a national movement. Phil Knight has turned that winner's attitude into a corporate philosophy. Read story
Boyd Hill Keeps Hammering Away
His construction materials company is losing money, but he won't give up without a hard fight. Read story