Encouraging Process Innovation


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6 Habits of Truly Memorable People

How to stick out in the minds of your colleagues and customers--no gimmicks required.  Read more

The Best (and Hardest) Way to Start a Company

How to live the entrepreneurial dream while minimizing your risks and maximizing your success. (Warning: This ain't easy.)  Read more

JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon: This Is Leadership?

Since when does a mea culpa deserve praise? JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon shows how low the leadership bar can go.  Read more

9 Qualities of Remarkable Entrepreneurs

What separates the best from everyone else? (Hint: It's not about the money.)  Read more

Taking On an Ambitious Project? Be Honest

It won't get you anywhere to gloss over the challenges of a new business venture. Three reasons why.  Read more

Friday Fail: Worst Bosses

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and embarrassment. This week: Your worst bosses.  Read more

How to Find Your Next Great Idea

Sometimes it's smarter to ditch the dream of finding something brand new. Try riding someone else's wave instead.  Read more

Who Needs a Business Plan?

If you're ready to do the real work of launching a start-up, start here.  Read more

What's Wrong With the Lean Start-up

It sounds like straightforward enough advice to build a better business, but the approach has serious flaws.  Read more

Great Bosses Don’t Go Undercover

If you need a disguise to learn the truth about your company, you're doing something wrong. Here's how to do it right.  Read more

5 Laws of Business You’ve Never Heard Of

If Isaac Newton had studied companies, he would have discovered these principles that govern how managers work.  Read more

4 Embarrassing Yahoo Mistakes to Avoid

A CEO with false credentials is only the latest blunder the company has made. Check out the others--and how to avoid them.  Read more

25 Signs Your Ego Is Out of Control

A healthy dose of self-confidence is a very good thing for an entrepreneur... until it's not.  Read more

7 Deadly Management Sins

How to identify--and root out--your worst human instincts before they infect your team.  Read more

7 Fatal Interviewer Mistakes

Job candidates aren't the only ones who screw up interviews. Here are seven blunders interviewers make--and how to avoid them.  Read more

Roll Up Your Sleeves. Lead By Example 

Innovation is as much about invention as it is about process improvements, shortcuts, and better systems.  Watch video

Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get Dirty 

As chief executive of Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, Howard Tullman works 80 to 100 hours each week to prepare digital media students for the real world.  Watch video

Grind, Hustle & Payoff 

Enrollment at Howard Tullman's newest business venture, Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, has increased six-fold since it was founded in 2007.  Watch video

6 Books You Must Read

While most business books are interesting, most of them won't really change your professional or personal life. These can.  View slideshow

A Serial Entrepreneur's Next Big Bet 

Howard Tullman has built more than a dozen businesses in the last 40 years. His latest, Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, is a for-profit digital arts vocational s...  Watch video

Deliver on Deadline Every Time: 6 Tips

Don't let your project slide off the rails before it even starts. Keep your team on track and on time with these tips.  Read more

6 Pointers from the Man Who Invented the iPod

Tony Fadell led the team that created the first 18 iterations of the iPod (and the first three of the iPhone). Here he describes his creative process.  Read more

How to Pitch a CEO: 4 Tips

Get the attention of a CEO and you've upped your chances of scoring a big deal. Here's how to do it the right way.  Read more

How to Road-Test Your Business Model

Two steps that can save you precious time and resources in the early days of your start-up.  Read more

Customers Not Buying? 4 Smart Business Moves

This entrepreneur launched his business 12 days before 9/11. He survived--and thrived--by adapting his plan on the fly.  Read more

5 Ways to Survive the Worst Days

One day you're on top, the next you couldn't feel lower. Entrepreneurs share their tips for getting through dark days.  Read more

What’s Wrong with Performance Targets?

Let's start with a kibosh on smart thinking, internal collaboration, and external relationship-building.  Read more

Leverage Big Data in Your Small Business: 5 Tips

Giant corporations use data analysis to fine-tune their marketing. So can you.  Read more

Are Your Prices Too Complicated?

Maybe customers don't care exactly how much you're charging--they just want to know why.  Read more

4 Steps to Innovate the P&G Way

Don't have the $2 billion R&D budget of P&G? Not to worry. CTO Bruce Brown says any company can master this process.  Read more

Get Your Inbox to Zero: 5 Tricks

Experiencing palpitations when you open your email? It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how to get back in control.  Read more

Want to Build a Business to Last? Here’s the Secret

Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all know the strategy. Here's how you can make it work for your business.  Read more

Become an Entrepreneur--No Idea Required

You get a salary, equity, mentors, and more. An inside look at how a San Francisco 'foundry' plans to build the next killer start-up.  Read more

Change Any Habit Painlessly: 6 Tips

Almost everything you currently do... you can do even better. Here's how.  Read more

When Old IP Comes Back From the Dead

Deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came back to the stage via hologram. What does that have to do with your IP strategy? Plenty.  Read more