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Recent Leadership Articles

Filing for Bankruptcy to Deal With a Tax Bill

By Author No |  Feb 6, 2002

Bankruptcy may be the answer to your tax woes. Here's how it works.  Read more

Wine Not?

By Rebecca Dorr |  Feb 1, 2002

Sure, a person can almost always find an exquisite wine when traveling. But for Lee Perlman 'almost always' isn't enough.  Read more

Spokes Women

By Rebecca Dorr |  Feb 1, 2002

CEO Linda Graebner has found the perfect path into her daughter's head. (It involves pedaling.)  Read more

Vegas, Stripped

By Kate O'Sullivan |  Feb 1, 2002

As George Maloof Jr. sees it, there's a lot more to Vegas than the Strip.  Read more

The Work-at-Home Diaries

By Joseph Rosenbloom |  Feb 1, 2002

Offers show up every day in your E-mailbox promising that you can escape your straitjacketing day job and make plenty of money working from home. Could it be...  Read more

Hands On: Works Well With Others

By Ilan Mochari |  Feb 1, 2002

Giving employees quarterly goals has helped Revenue Technology Services Corp. to improve cooperation.  Read more

FYI: Think Small. No, Smaller

By George Gendron |  Jan 1, 2002

You can wear yourself out worrying about the big issues we face these days, but it's the small things we need to focus on.  Read more

Ken Burns's Jeffersonian Pavilion

By John Grossmann |  Jan 1, 2002

Master documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on his Jeffersonian pavilion.  Read more

Inside the Smartest Little Company in America

By Julie Bick |  Jan 1, 2002

Whit Alexander and Richard Tait, founders of Cranium Inc., had never run a business before. But they did have one thing going for them: brains. That's why th...  Read more

Off the Record: A Candid Exec on the CRM Culture Shift

By Don Peppers and Martha Rogers |  Dec 1, 2001

Implementing a CRM strategy that gets results inevitably involves winning over the hearts and minds of employees; and arguably the most difficult step of ...  Read more

Raising Cane

By Tahl Raz |  Dec 1, 2001

Transforming the Big Apple into Tinseltown.  Read more

Rhonda?s Sixth Annual Holiday Survival Guide

By Rhonda Abrams |  Nov 29, 2001

Each year, I write a column on how to survive the holidays. Never before, however, have I had to take the term " survival" quite so literally. With threat...  Read more

At Their Knee

By Rifka Rosenwein |  Nov 15, 2001

Some Inc. 500 CEOs owe their success (at least in part) to mentoring from some very celebrated business icons. So what's Ted Turner really like as a ...  Read more

Brief Profiles of 2001 Inc 500 Companies

By Inc. staff |  Nov 15, 2001

Unusual stories and interesting statistics about companies on the 2001 Inc 500 list.  Read more

Caribou Peekaboo

By Erin Callaway |  Nov 15, 2001

Keeping far-flung workers united.  Read more

A Company of Entrepreneurs

By Karen M. Kroll |  Nov 15, 2001

Managing employees who are used to being the boss.  Read more

The New Face of Self-Employment

By Julie Bick |  Nov 1, 2001

At Indigo Partners, the rules are different. Unlike traditional entrepreneurs, Indigo's partners aren't scrambling to grow a company; their joy is in the wor...  Read more

Leading Your Company Through a Crisis

By Lisa Chadderdon |  Oct 25, 2001

In times of crisis, people need leaders more than ever. Your expectations and actions can help your company recover, hurt your company, or even lead to it...  Read more

Jeanne Lambert, Home Alone

By Rifka Rosenwein |  Oct 1, 2001

A single CEO with no children sets some boundaries.  Read more

Managing One-to-One

By Leigh Buchanan |  Oct 1, 2001

Operating under the premise that no two workers are alike, companies that are practicing one-to-one management are figuring out what makes each of their empl...  Read more

The Innovator's Dilemma

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Oct 1, 2001

What to do when your dream comes true and you hate it.  Read more

Powerful Questions Can Have a Powerful Effect

By Jamie Walters |  Sep 4, 2001

Questions can be one of the most effective communication tools available to us. Strong relationships, strategic plans, award-winning collateral, and the m...  Read more

Managing Uncertainty in an Economic Downturn

By Jamie Walters |  Sep 4, 2001

Our economy is proof-positive that history repeats itself. Over the course of every decade or so, the economy seems to slump, recover, and boom. As we awa...  Read more

Sleep, the Final Frontier

By D.M. Osborne |  Sep 1, 2001

The experts know that nothing is more important than the right amount of sleep. They also know how to get it.  Read more

Hoop Dreams

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 1, 2001

For Rich Baumer, there's the company he's built, and there's basketball. Don't try to take the basketball away.  Read more

Frank Tucker's Downtime

By Rifka Rosenwein |  Sep 1, 2001

Life after work: heading home with a single-dad CEO.  Read more

Using Your Noodle

By Kate O'Sullivan |  Sep 1, 2001

One start-up team did everything wrong -- except for the one thing that mattered most: they took a cold, hard look at their mistakes.  Read more

Oprah Gets Psyched

By Mike Hofman |  Sep 1, 2001

How Oprah gets psyched for boardroom showdowns -- and other pearls overheard at the nation's top daylong conference of female execs.  Read more

Working Together Takes You Farther

By Rick Bernauer |  Aug 13, 2001

Three years ago I merged the technology consulting company I had run for 15 years with another, competing firm. My decision to consider a merger grew out ...  Read more

When Do You Lie? Strategies For More Authentic, Respectful Communication

By Jamie Walters |  Aug 9, 2001

Lies come in all shapes, sizes and colors. (Ever heard of flat-out, teensy or white lies?) The effect that lies have on their recipients is as varied as i...  Read more

Encourage Self-Appointed Ambassadors to Tell Your Story

By Jamie Walters |  Aug 9, 2001

Beyond the machinated public-relations plugs and news bites, there's a band of people who can -- and will -- genuinely advocate for your business and its ...  Read more

The 4-1-1 On Constructive Criticism

By Jamie Walters |  Aug 3, 2001

Being critical is easy, and offering criticism seems easier still. Yet constructive criticism - - the more refined and effective brand of critical feedbac...  Read more

Growing Home

By Donna Fenn |  Aug 1, 2001

Is it possible to combine entrepreneurial ambition with community life?  Read more

QA: Sins of the Founder

By Mike Hofman |  Aug 1, 2001

Despite runaway growth, ZF Micro Devices is hiring additional staff only sparingly. That's because CEO David Feldman is haunted by a mistake he made a decade...  Read more

Hot Tip: Team Up with Competition

By Emily Barker |  Aug 1, 2001

Save money on material costs by teaming up with your competition.  Read more