Featured First Person: Timothy S. Cohen
As long as you view business, and life itself, as a learning process, you cannot lose; whatever happens, you will learn from it and keep growing and enric... Read more
Employee Benefits
Recent Employee Benefits Articles
A Holiday-Bonus Alternative
A CEO explains how she can give herself an alternative holiday bonus despite tight profit margins. Read more
Forget the Organization, Says Management Guru
Noted business author Nancy Austin explains what's new in upcoming titles from the business-book press. Read more
Too Cool For School?
After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here's why today's savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees. Read more
From Peace Corps to Entrepreneurial Hardcore
Jude Carter's home a... Read more
Therapist to the New Economy
Profiles of various businesspeople who have embraced the teaching of Stephen Covey, and why. Read more
What's the Net Present Value of a Harvard M.B.A.?
A quick look at how valuable a Havard M.B.A. is to entrepreneurs interested in owning a business. Read more
Student Uprising
A look at why, faced with poor job prospects, university students today are starting companies in record numbers. Read more
Workplace: Managing Generation X
An overview of how a marketing and communications firm is attracting and motivating young employees. Read more
Book Reviews: Enough Is Enough
In 1991, Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange tell us, more than "2 million more Americans found themselves in poverty than in 1990, bringing the total figur... Read more
That Championship Season
An open-book management guru explains why in successful businesses everybody knows where the company is heading. Read more
The Virtual Water Cooler
A look at how various entrepreneurs who have left large companies are coping with life as small-business people. Read more
Health Insurance: Cost-Cutting Strategies
A quick look at how a consulting firm was able to save a candy manufacturer $150,000 in its health insurance costs. Read more
Jockeying for Position, Keeping Tabs, Speaking Out
Three CEOs each review a different business software package--HR Task Counselor, WebTalk, CRUSH. Read more
When Money Talks, People Walk
A management consultant explains why cash rewards don't motivate people as well as intrinsic rewards can. Read more
Selling: Paying Inc. 500 Sales VIPs
Three Inc 500 CEOs explain how they set up compensation strategies to achieve long-term sales goals. Read more
To Steve, with Love
The story of how a businessman started teaching entrepreneurship in the inner-city. Read more
Health Insurance: Healthful Habits Pay Off
An overview of a company's wellness program, and the benefits that have resulted from the program. Read more
Workplace: The Value of Flexibility
For some employees, flexibility plans can be as attractive as hefty salaries or benefit packages. Read more
Compensation: Bonuses That Make Sense
A CEO explains his system of awarding bonuses that are based on trust and communications. Read more
Incentives: A Scientific Sales Bonus
A CEO explains how he rewards his technical staffers who push the company's products. Read more
The First Time
Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a review of A. F. Brattina's book Diary of a Small Business Owner. Read more
Book Value
A business writer offers a reading list for entrepreneurs that includes many titles not related to business. Read more
Plan of Attack
A look at how company builders are working hard to acquire some foresight into the economy. Read more
Insurance: A Low-Cost Solution
An overview of a group that offers self-employed people access to various insurances at low, group rates. Read more
Sundae School
A CEO tells why it is so difficult to be socially resposible when creating daily business policies. Read more
Renaissance Man
A profile of the 1995 Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year and the runners-up. Read more
Resource: The Covey Connection
Some information concerning the nationwide seminars based on the book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Read more
Employee Freebies: All This Is Yours
A look at a program that gives employees the entire line of the manufacturer's products to ensure high quality. Read more
Benefits: Get Ready for Elder Care
Two managers explain how their companies set up and offered senior care insurance to employees. Read more
Benchmark: Communicating 401(k) Information
Graphs displaying information on how various small businesses communicate 401(k) information to employees. Read more
Regulation: FMLA Revisions
Five revised issues in the Family and Medical Leave Act are outlined. Read more
Book Review: Sales in the Information Age
Two of Inc.'s writers review three new books that apply the latest technologies to marketing. Read more
Long Hours for Long Weekends
The results are positive for a company who gives employees every other Friday off. Read more
What CEOs are Reading
A CEO shares what he learned from reading 'The Fifth Discipline'. Read more
