Encouraging Process Innovation


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4 Perks Employees Love

Happy employees are productive employees. Use these perks to retain the people you want without breaking the budget.  Read more

How to Make Smarter Decisions on the Fly

A better process to think through your choices when the stakes are high.  Read more

7 Ways to Screw Up a New Employee

Want that new hire to get off to a great start? Forget about following these nuggets of conventional wisdom.  Read more

Friday Fail: Worst Fireable Offenses

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and shame. This week: Getting sacked.  Read more

5 Things Remarkable Bosses Never Do

What you don't do can sometimes make a bigger impact than what you do.  Read more

How Not to Crash & Burn in Business

Running a business is like flying a plane: Lots of decisions to make and zero time to analyze them. Improve your gut instincts with these tips.  Read more

6 Ways Successful People Stand Out

Substance trumps style in the long run. Here's how to make the kind of impression that lasts.  Read more

Power of the Quiet Entrepreneur

Why you don't have to be loud to be a great leader.  Read more

8 Reasons to Fire Your Personal Assistant

Need a cheaper way to manage your topsy-turvy schedule? These apps and services will do the trick.  Read more

Legacy: Norman Edmund, 1916-2012

Norman Edmund started an army salvage business out of his New Jersey home, and became publisher of the famous Edmund Scientific catalog.  Read more

Coming Up with New Clothing Line Ideas 

Lara Miller's creative inspiration comes from architecture, Russian dolls, and Mexican textiles.  Watch video

Without This Skill, You Won't Succeed

It doesn't matter what industry you're in. This is the one thing all successful people know how to do well.  Read more

5 Smart Moves to Steal from the Tech Industry

Strategies every start-up and small business can take from Apple, Facebook, Google, and other leaders in high tech.  Read more

Why the Best Product Doesn't Always Win

Entrepreneurs often think only the best product will let them succeed. But sometimes 'best' isn't what your customers really want.  Read more

Why 'Idea' Should Be a Verb

Ideas without action aren't ideas--they're regrets.  Read more

Note to Tech Start-ups: Cool Products Aren’t Enough

A hot mobile app that gets attention does not a company make. A better way: Build what people want and find a way to make it pay.  Read more

8 Things Great Consultants Say

You may not want to hear some of these things--but your project will be better for it.  Read more

How to Land an Amazing Mentor: 5 Tips

Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe on how he found two mentors who taught him most of what he knows now about running a $130 million company.  Read more

Need an Idea for a Killer New Business? Try This.

DocStoc CEO Jason Nazar needed a new product idea that might help grow the business. He got it--in a week. Here's how.  Read more

How to Build a Great Team With Imperfect People

Your goal isn’t to ensure every employee is great; it's to ensure that collectively they'll be great. (There’s a big difference.)  Read more

How to Cultivate Collective Intelligence

Unleash your worker bees. The power of swarms and cooperation to attack business problems.  Read more

Why the Capital Gains Tax Hurts Entrepreneurs

The capital gains tax has been touted as the brass ring for business owners. But if you self-fund your growth, it's anything but.  Read more

How to Settle Employee Squabbles

The last thing you want to do is seem like you're taking sides. Here's how to handle interpersonal problems more gracefully.  Read more

To Be a Better Entrepreneur, Look to the Past

Sure, all entrepreneurs look to the future - but I've learned that the best ones don't overlook the past.  Read more

6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project

Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently? Make sure your team understands what success should look like.  Read more

Your Prescription for Productivity

Here's how a mind-body approach can help you achieve peak performance--both personally, and company-wide.  Read more

Should You Track Economic Value Added?

It's a complicated formula that provides excellent insight into performance... but does it matter for your business?  Read more

Killing Your Start-up by Listening to Customers

Getting customer feedback is essential in the early stages of your company--but it's what you do with it that determines your fate.  Read more

The Beauty of Epic Failures

They're painful. They're humiliating. And sometimes they're exactly what you need.  Read more

The Antidote to Insecurity

Give in to your insecurity and the problem will only get worse. Here's how to confront it head on.  Read more

Method's 4 Rules for Staying Innovative

Eric Ryan, co-founder of method home products, reveals the four things his company does to keep the creativity flowing.  Read more

Have Tech Start-ups Lost Their Sense of Fun?

Google & Apple innovate to win--fun has little to do with it. But more whimsy is exactly what young start-ups need.  Read more

How to Avoid Confrontation… and Still Succeed

Conflicts rarely end well, so it's natural to want to avoid them. But you can't hide from them forever.  Read more

9 Things You Must Do to Be a Market Leader

A good product is only the cost of entry. If you're going to thrive, you'll need more than that.  Read more

8 Guaranteed Ways to Drive Customers Away

If your long-term customers are leaving--and not coming back--you're probably making one of these mistakes.  Read more