Tools of Employment
Attracting and keeping talent can be your growing company's biggest challenge. Human resources software can give you an edge. Read more
Leadership
Recent Leadership Articles
Book Review: Diagnosing Organizations To Increase Effectiveness
"Organizational DNA" explores four distinct organizational DNAs to demonstrate how empowerment and other management processes can appear differently when pra... Read more
Book Review: Intuition At Work
Gary Klein, an acclaimed business researcher, demystifies the role intuition plays when making business decisions. Read more
Battle Plans
How Inc. 500 entrepreneurs think the war will affect their companies. Read more
Taming the Savage Genius
The delicate art of managing employees who are way, way smarter than you. Read more
Bad Dreams Are Made Of This
A business owner faces his worst nightmare: cutting his trusted staff. Plus: Motivating your managers. Read more
Inner City 100 Impact Index
Inner City 100 companies impact their communities in more ways than just providing jobs to workers in America's urban areas. Read more
Inner City 100 Hall of Fame
The beacons of inner city business growth are commended this year -- their fifth year on the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) / Inc. Magazine I... Read more
Company Philosophy: The Way We Do Things Around Here
Basic principles should be the underlying and overriding component of a company's system of management. Read more
The Long-Term Perils of Being a Control Freak
It's an entrepreneurial condition that goes by many names. And for many owners of smaller companies, it's the affliction that both keeps them from effectivel... Read more
Hot Tip: Reinforcing Corporate Culture
Aaron Kennedy, founder and co-executive of Noodles Company, a national restaurant chain, uses store visits and a weekly newsletter to reinforce t... Read more
"Go to Your Office!"
What to do when your employees bicker like children. Plus: Taming the health care beast. Read more
Arizona Son
When the Pima Indians asked Steve May for help, his passion for public affairs rose to the occasion. Read more
Grist: Down With Bossocracy
Though many large companies have rushed to support the diversity policies at the University of Michigan, how many American businesses, large or small, really... Read more
Waking Up to War
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It's Easy Being Green
March is the month for St. Patrick's Day, and you know what that means -- it's time to be green. But in addition to wearing green clothes or drinking green b... Read more
Ask Inc: Do I Still Have the Right Stuff?
A company founder wonders whether the time has come to fire himself. Plus: How to handle problem employees. Read more
Private Lives: Chasing Bad Guys
Some ad honchos play golf or catch a movie in their off-hours. Tom Di Zinno fights crime. Read more
A-Betting March Madness
This month your employees may be worrying more about Marquette than your market. Should you care? Read more
How to Practice Open-Book Management
Are you prepared to share your financial statements with your employees? Read more
Open-Book Management
Open-Book Management, Cost Controls Article - Explore the pros and cons of opening your books to employees. Read more
Open-Book Management
Open-Book Management, Cost Controls Article - Explore the pros and cons of opening your books to employees. Read more
Making the Switch to VoIP
It's not always easy to make the switch to an Internet phone system, but the savings are well worth the pain, as Craft Diston Industries discovered. Read more
Letter from the Editor: The King of Confidence
It's about more than just winning. Read more
Mail: February 2003
Readers react to recent Inc magazine articles. Read more
Case Study: Going for Broke
Few small companies survive Chapter 11, which makes filing for bankruptcy a last resort for the average privately held business. Read more
How I Did It: When Civil Rights Came to My Box Office
A Memphis businessman recalls how his chain of movie theaters prepared for integration in the Jim Crow-era South. Read more
Let the Good Works Roll
How an entrepreneur can master the extreme sport of philanthropy while running a growing company. Read more
Let Us Now Pray ... for Accu-Fab
Three years ago Gregg Page and Dennis Zullig decided that spreading the glory of God -- not making money -- would be their company's top priority. They had n... Read more
The World's Best Employee Manual
Zingerman's entertaining handbook is proof positive of its deep belief in people and its fascination with management. Read more
How Can I Be Diverse When I'm So Small?
Diversity is necessary for health and survival in all aspects of life -- including business. But when you run a small business -- especially a very small bus... Read more
Letter from the Editor: Growth Odyssey
How Zingerman's found a breakthrough strategy. Read more
Mail: January 2003
Readers react to recent Inc magazine articles. Read more
What I Know Now: Seduced and Abandoned (and Grateful, Too)
Unable to resist the lure of growth, Denver Hopkins made his small business big. Then he failed. Then he made a discovery. Read more
The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker
Keith Ferrazzi needs two PalmPilots to keep track of all his contacts, people like Bill Clinton and Michael Milken. Read more
