How to Set Strategy and Be an Effective Leader
How to develop a winning team, put together a successful growth strategy, and build a great board of directors. Read more
Leadership and Managing
Recent Leadership and Managing Guides
How to Manage Employee Compensation
Advice on what to pay employees, how to develop winning teams, and whether it's smart to share equity with members of your staff. Read more
How to Hire Your First Employee
Your business is off the ground and now you're ready to hire your very first employee. What should you look for when staffing up at a start-up? Here are some... Read more
Overcoming Burnout
The entrepreneurial experience can be a lot of things: exhilarating, liberating, and, alas, tiring. Serious company building requires a great amount of e... Read more
How to Fire Decisively
Firing an employee is never easy, but these 5 tips can make showing an employee the door a less daunting task. Read more
How to Hire Wisely
Forget the gimmicky tests and interview books. Here are some tips you really can use to make a great hire. Read more
Finding Balance
Getting carried away in your work is easy to do when you're an entrepreneur. Running a business becomes an integral part of your life, and often, the lin... Read more
Leading Through a Crisis
Terror attacks, war with Iraq, natural disasters -- any extraordinary event could have a devastating effect on the health of your business. To help business ... Read more
Leading Through a Crisis
Terror attacks, war with Iraq, natural disasters -- any extraordinary event could have a devastating effect on the health of your business. To help business ... Read more
Waking Up to War
Here, Inc.com assembles its most recent articles on the Read more
How to Practice Open-Book Management
Are you prepared to share your financial statements with your employees? Read more
Open-Book Management
"The beauty of open-book management is that it really works. It helps companies compete in today's mercurial marketplace by getting everybody on the payr... Read more
Open-Book Management
"The beauty of open-book management is that it really works. It helps companies compete in today's mercurial marketplace by getting everybody on the payr... Read more
The Innovation Factor: The Series
In its three-part special series on innovation, Inc focused on companies and company leaders that have made innovation an integral part of their bus... Read more
The Innovation Factor: The Series
In its three-part special series on innovation, Inc focused on companies and company leaders that have made innovation an integral part of their bus... Read more
Finding a Mentor
Imagine having management guru Peter Drucker as your business mentor. As it ... Read more
Controlling Costs
Simple, everyday cost-shaving strategies can help get your business off the ground. Or, if you're further along in the process, these strategies can help you... Read more
Leadership
"Leadership" can be an elusive quality. How does one become a better leader? And what makes a great leader? Although there are no easy answers to these q... Read more
Case Studies in Business Ethics
You don't have much time to worry about world hunger and nuclear disarmament when you're building a business. But that's not to say entrepreneurs can't be so... Read more
Success Stories
We know you have a dream - a big dream. You wouldn't be building a business if you didn't have one. And while some dreams turn to dust in the cold light of b... Read more
Recruiting
Finding just one skilled employee in the current job market can be tough. Finding an entire team - from key executives to critical support staff - is dow... Read more
Recruiting and Retention Secrets of Inc. 500 Alumni
What company would know more about finding and keeping talented employees than an Inc. 500 company? Fast g... Read more
Motivating Employees
When you think about it, the success of any facet of your business can almost always be traced back to motivated employees. From productivity and profita... Read more
Equity as Compensation
Think of equity as a new American currency. Employees today frequently expect stock options as part of their compensation mix, and service providers ofte... Read more
Executive Recruiting
First the bad news. If you thought finding good entry-level help was tough in this troublesome talent market, try locating a chief technology officer, a ... Read more
Developing Winning Teams
These days, it's nearly impossible to find companies -- even itty-bitty ones -- that don't use some kind of formal teamwork to get projects done... Read more
Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Building a business means facing all kinds of ethical decisions. Should you skip a creditor's bill in a cash flow crisis? Help an alcoholic employee get ... Read more
Employee Ownership
For years, companies have been using employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and various other ownership-sharing tools to attract, keep, and motivate talented... Read more
Building a Great Board
A rethinking of business governance is taking place, as Tahl Raz points out in the March 2003 story, "Read more
Training Ideas
To get the most out of employees, offer more than raises and promotions -- give them the opportunity to learn. Here are basic training tips and creative alte... Read more
