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Recent Leadership Articles

Obit: Concert Promoter Hits Rough Road in Vermont

By Julie Carrick Dalton |  Oct 1, 1999

Big World Productions was successful as long as it stuck close to home, but new markets drained resources and failed to provide revenues for this entertainme...  Read more

What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs

By Steven Berglas |  Oct 1, 1999

By revitalizing Apple Computer, Steve Jobs proves that there's nothing like a charismatic leader when times are tough. But could all that charisma backfire w...  Read more

Superman in Recovery

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Oct 1, 1999

An interview with Max Carey, CEO of Corporate Resource Development. Carey discusses his book "The Superman Complex," in which he offers advice on achieving b...  Read more

Get Out of the House

By Shane McLaughlin |  Oct 1, 1999

Everyone should work at home. That's what the pundits were saying just a few years ago. The reality: whilesome people love the freedom, others have found ...  Read more

Roll Out the Welcome Mat

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 30, 1999

It's the question that haunts every growth company: how do you quickly integrate new employees into an existing company culture? Start by enlisting the em...  Read more

The Peer Group: The Benefits of Brutal Honesty

By Susan Greco |  Sep 27, 1999

In the movie You've Got Mail , when Meg Ryan asks Tom Hanks how to save her ailing Manhattan bookstore, he suggests that she seek insights from Read more

" Talk Is Cheap, Literally"

Sep 22, 1999

There are codes your phone company would prefer you didn't know--codes that would give you access to cheaper long-distance carriers that bypass your prima...  Read more

Impress Clients With a Fun Workplace

Sep 22, 1999

When what you do leaves customers cold, you need an icebreaker. "People don't even want to talk about accounting, because it's so boring," says Yvonne Ang...  Read more

Badmouthing Prohibited

Sep 22, 1999

To make sure employees don't clown around with the customers who fuel the growth of Sequent Computer Systems, the company depends on one of the most famou...  Read more

Accentuate the Negative

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 15, 1999

Knowledge management, the art of mastering the information that lies within your company's walls, involves more than discovering what you know; it's what you...  Read more

Size Matters

By William R. Pape |  Sep 15, 1999

Can AgInfoLink, a vendor of livestock-tracking systems, succeed as a virtual operation? Here are seven helpful tips for anyone considering a virtual start-up.  Read more

Benchmark Your Way to Success

By Robert Hoffman |  Sep 1, 1999

QUESTION: Benchmarking is a practice used by companies to support continuous improvement. What factors should be considered when ...  Read more

Survey Says

Sep 1, 1999

Employee Surveys that Make a Difference by Joe Folkman. Executive Excellence, 286 pages, $19.95. Employee surveys are like apologi...  Read more

Taking Initiative: The Options Are Endless

By Bob Nelson |  Sep 1, 1999

A recent poll of executives asked, " What do you feel is the single best way for employees to earn a promotion and/or raise?" Topping the list for 82% of ...  Read more

How to Make Suggestions Count

By Bob Nelson |  Sep 1, 1999

An important aspect of initiative that any employee can put into practice is making suggestions. Every employer wants and needs employees who can spot pro...  Read more

Tips for Motivating Techies

By Bob Nelson |  Sep 1, 1999

Motivating Technical Employees Consider the following rewards for your technical staff. Interesting and challengi...  Read more

Flawed Safeguard Sinks Security Company

By Julie Carrick Dalton |  Sep 1, 1999

JWA Security Services Inc. had growing sales and an industry-savvy CEO. But overreliance on a single client, coupled with cash-flow troubles, brought the bus...  Read more

First Aide

By Nancy K. Austin |  Sep 1, 1999

Melba J. Duncan knows what makes for a world-class executive assistant. Her one-of-a-kind recruiting business may even help you learn how to find a superstar...  Read more

Hot Tip: Hole Up at Home

By Donna Fenn |  Aug 1, 1999

Not only did Michael Knowles start his security guard staffing company in the guest room of his house in Tallahassee, Fla., but he didn't relocate it to l...  Read more

The Taming of the Crew

By Leigh Buchanan |  Aug 1, 1999

Jerry Strahan, general manager of street-vendor Lucky Dogs, has spent nearly 30 years shepherding a staff of vagrants, thieves, and other miscreants. A lesso...  Read more

Shortcut Derails Maker of Long Golf Clubs

By Joshua D. Macht |  Aug 1, 1999

The idea was simple: make a longer golf club that would hit longer drives. But failing to get certification from the U.S. Golf Association landed Black Rock ...  Read more

Everything I Know, I Learned from Warren Buffett

By Christopher Caggiano |  Jul 1, 1999

An interview with Joe Mansueto, the founder of Morningstar. Mansueto describes how Warren Buffett, legendary investor and owner of Berkshire Hathaway, inspir...  Read more

Cheap Access to Net Costs Provider Dearly

By Bronwyn Fryer |  Jul 1, 1999

ISP @Bigger.net planned to offer customers lifetime Internet service for a one-time fee. But flawed software, insufficient capital, and too few subscribers d...  Read more

Challenge: Employee Communications

By Stephanie L Gruner |  Jul 1, 1999

What's the difference between many companies' newsletters and Brooks O'Kane's? His gets read. ClearVue Products Inc., a $5-million cleaning-products...  Read more

Words of Wisdom from the Chairman of the Board

By Christopher Caggiano |  Jul 1, 1999

Some annual reports are worth reading Is there anything more dreadful to read than an annual report? Most are nothing but endless ...  Read more

How Motley Fools Talk Back

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 1999

If you've ever wondered whether building an intranet is worthwhile, then consider the example of Motley Fool, an online investor-education company based i...  Read more

E-Poll Results: Is Travel Taking its Toll?

By Inc. staff |  Jun 1, 1999

Readers respond to a poll from Inc. Technology #1, 1999. It seems that many execs feel that being away from the office hampers them as managers.  Read more

Maker of Rugged PCs Crumbles in IPO Bid

By Emily Barker |  Jun 1, 1999

Iron Computer Corp. had a great product: a rugged PC designed for harsh environments. But a risky Internet IPO caused the computer manufacturer to crash for ...  Read more

Writing the Book on Managing Employees

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 1, 1999

Reviews of seven new business books. Subjects include: employee motivation; the seven deadly sins of business; and tips on running a family business.  Read more

Four Steps to Building Better Businesspeople

By Jim Bado |  Jun 1, 1999

If dividend checks, 20% increases in stock value, and record sales numbers are exciting business victories that put more money in your wallet, how did the...  Read more

They Were the Best of Times, They Were...Oh, You Know

By Inc. staff |  May 15, 1999

Contributors to the 20th Anniversary issue proffer what they consider to be the finest--and darkest--hours of the past two decades.  Read more

In Our Time

By Inc. staff |  May 15, 1999

A timeline listing some of the most significant events in business from 1979 to 1999.  Read more

The End of the World as We Knew It

By George Gendron |  May 15, 1999

The great achievement of the past two decades is that we've now learned everything necessary to create businesses that grow. But will we ever design business...  Read more

The Culture Wars

By Tom Richman |  May 15, 1999

When it comes to corporate culture, Allan Kennedy wrote the book. An interview with the co-author of the widely misunderstood "Corporate Cultures: The Rites ...  Read more

Out of Thin Air

By Michael S. Hopkins |  May 15, 1999

Whatever companies entrepreneurs are building, they're also building a life. Jim Ansara, the CEO of Shawmut Design Construction, describes his 20...  Read more