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Faith Popcorn: My Biggest Mistake
Faith Popcorn Founder, BrainReserve Inc., a marketing-consulting company based in New York City. She is the author of the best-... Read more
The Quotable Entrepreneur: Ron Schmelzer
"When we hit the wall with our first company, we realized we had to shut down and start over. So we called our employees together and brought everybody th... Read more
Don't Let the Company Take Over Your Life
Corporate Cults, by Dave Arnott AMACOM, 256 pages, $23.95 Work and family often get shortchanged for our work responsi... Read more
Hot Tip: Shipping Costs
Former teacher Scott Kunst started Old House Gardens, a catalog retailer of heirloom bulbs in Ann Arbor, Mich., six years ago. Like a lot of rookie busine... Read more
History of a Business Pioneer
Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind, by John E. Flaherty. Jossey Bass, 1999, 420 pages, $27. Peter Drucker... Read more
Low-Cost Ways to Build Employee Commitment
Approximately 80% of Fortune 1000 companies report that retaining talent is a major issue for them, and nearly half are planning to offer more ge... Read more
Obit: Fast-Paced Rivals Silence Talking Beeper Service
Here's how fierce competition and the expense of building a national infrastructure rendered Conxus Communications, a voice- and text-paging service, permane... Read more
Mind Gains
Here's how Viant CEO Bob Gett, fueled by his desire to quit consulting, designed a work environment that nobody would want to leave. In the process, he may h... Read more
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Soloist
Harriet Rubin discusses the most important lesson she has learned during her two years as a soloist: the very same things that make soloing rewarding are exa... Read more
Straight to the Source
Reviews of eight new business books -- five on leadership secrets from historical figures, one chronicling the story of the first computer, and two delineati... Read more
Can't Stop the Rain?
Is your best salesperson also your most disruptive management problem? Here's how you can deal with your abrasive rainmaker. Read more
Communicating Your Ethics Philosophy
Holt Company is recognized for initiating a "values-based leadership process" in 1989 to both promote ethics as a priority business issue... Read more
Withstanding Rejection
Starting from "No": 10 Strategies to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection and Succeed in Business, by Azriela Jaffe Dearborn, 262 pages, $17.95<... Read more
Best of the Small Business Web: Personnel Best
Pinnacle Decision Systems' staff site eases new employees in and lessens current workers' growing pains. Read more
Let Values Guide Your Firm's Strategies
Managing Upside Down by Tom Chappell. Morrow, 219 pages, $25. Even while he was experiencing wild success with his all-natural pe... Read more
Acing Your First Six Months as a Leader
Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role by Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins Harvard Business Scho... Read more
Learning From the Best
Lessons from the Top: The Search for America's Best Business Leaders by Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin. Doubleday, 418 pages, $24.95.... Read more
Management Skills for Home and Office
Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa) by Tom Hirschfeld with Julie Hirschfeld. Little, Brown, 278 pa... Read more
Protecting Yourself When a Commercial Tenant Files for Bankruptcy
Nothing is more frightening to a landlord than to hear rumors that an important commercial tenant has or is about to file for bankruptcy. When a te... Read more
Making Managers Get Serious about Work/Family Policies
Too many managers don' t believe that HR is serious about work/family policies. They see work/family as the flavor of themonth and believe if they ignore ... Read more
Obit: Western-Wear Retailer Unhorsed by Suppliers
A look at how poor supplier relations, earthquake damage to 12 stores, and a fizzled fad for cowboy cool sent Howard Phil's Western Wear to the l... Read more
The Lessons of Great Blunders
When Giants Stumble by Robert Sobel. Prentice Hall, 349 pages, $26. The infamous cases of the Edsel, Coca-Cola's change in formula... Read more
Bankruptcy Basics
When a company experiences financial problems, its focus often turns to cash conservation. If the problems are not too severe, instituting a hiring freeze... Read more
Bankruptcy Redux: How Long Must I Wait?
Q: I bankrupted in 1992. How soon can I bankrupt again? A: You do not have to wait toooo long, although it might ... Read more
Efficiency By Design
For a Miami entrepreneur, uniform describes both a product line and a lifestyle. Read more
Pooled Charitable Trusts: Tax Breaks for Small Fry
Americans support more than a million nonprofit organizations--sometimes, you may feel that most of them have your phone number. Besides the many differen... Read more
Professional Associations: Gold Mines or Coal Mines?
Soon after former history professor George Bates opened Bates and Associates, a one-man consulting practice in Germantown, MD, he realized that he would h... Read more
It's Your Health, Stupid
Although most middle-aged people say that after retirement, they hope to be physically active, a great many follow a lifestyle that almost certainly sabot... Read more
Ask Me Anything
Michael May, CEO and president of Empower Trainers and Consultants, an Overland Park, Kans., training company that had 1998 revenues of $10.8 million, tru... Read more
Company Report Card
In the early 1990s, Alan Lewis struggled to create a mission statement for his travel company, Grand Circle Corp. The final document outlined the Boston-b... Read more
Everybody's Two Cents Counts
As an entrepreneur, you may have all kinds of great ideas, but you need employee buy-in to implement them. That's why Jennifer Lawton, CEO of Net Daemons ... Read more
The Limits of Open Books
CEO Andrew Sather and his partner, Chris DeVore, director of business development, figured that to make their four-year-old strategic Internet consulting ... Read more
Perfect Strategic Partnerships
Wesley Phillips, CEO of the Hunter Barth advertising and marketing agency in Costa Mesa, Calif., was surprised to hear employees gripe about the strategic... Read more