Leadership


Recent Leadership Articles

Lessons of a Bottom Feeder

Dave Morse has turned his most basic of businesses - community newspapers - into a success.  Read more

So This Is Empowerment?

Chart showing percentages of employees who have the authority to take certain actions.  Read more

Controlling Travel Costs

A new book gives tips on controlling corporate travel costs.  Read more

Ensuring E-Mail Privacy

Two software programs encrypt e-mail to protect its contents.  Read more

Buying: Strength in Numbers

Sole proprietors have formed a group to achieve bulk-buyer cost reductions.  Read more

Big Business's Yard Sale

Recycled-furniture dealers offer high-quality furniture at cut rates.  Read more

Managing Databases: Database Husbandry

A short article that traces the development of a company's database and the many tasks it handles  Read more

Cost Control Can Be Your Call

Four negotiating options that can control costs of moving into new space or upgrading an existing facility.  Read more

Discount Phone Calls

Long-distance resellers provide long-distance services at cut rates.  Read more

Saving Cash with Second-Time-Around Goods

A consortium encourages its members to conserve resources by using recycled materials.  Read more

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Entrepreneurial Traits by Nationality

Professor's study compares traits of entrepreneurs in Ireland, Hungary, Russia, and the United States.  Read more

Death of a Marriage

Cofounder tells how a great company got in the way of a wonderful marriage.  Read more

The Thinking CEO's Survival Kit

Tips on getting a life, staying healthy, workplace complementarity, cultivating creativity, and much more.  Read more

She Brakes for Moving Costs

Before moving from San Diego to New Mexico, company president researched locations by phone for 9 months.  Read more

Decoding the Bank's Secret Invoice

What your company's account-analysis statement means.  Read more

Fee Fight-Back

Tips for cutting bills for legal services.  Read more

No More Mr. Nice Guy

A CEO who set up a foundation to support nonprofits demands proof that nonprofits are having an impact.  Read more

Alone Again, Unnaturally

His stint as a CEO over, an entrepreneur returns home to gather strength for his next endeavor.  Read more

State of the Unions (and Why You Should Care)

Why unions are necessary for economic reasons and to preserve democracy.  Read more

Words to the Wired

A fast-growing company contracted an expert in stress reduction to teach employees techniques for reducing stress.  Read more

Dollars for Dialing

New long-distance debit cards offer convenience and savings.  Read more

Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Hard Lessons, Well Learned

How a mother's devotion to saving her son's life became the inspiration for starting a new business.  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Year: Our fifth annual company-building awards

Introduction and list of judges and winners for Inc.'s 1993 Entrepreneur of Year Award.  Read more

Survival of the Smartest

Nourse threw his life savings -- $125,000 -- into the business and borrowed an equal sum from a bank. Then he hired a store designer to help him fulfill h...  Read more

America's Owner

How the owner of the Dallas Cowboys has turned around this financially crumbling team.  Read more

Higher Math

How a CEO rescued a for-profit hospital from Chapter 11.  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Year Register

Profiles of recognition-worthy entrepreneurs from the 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year contest.  Read more

Not So Close, Please

Excerpts from a survey dealing with employees' perceptions of their companies' work/family policies.  Read more

Homes Away from Home

A comparison of extended-stay hotels, geared to the business traveler.  Read more

Truth and Fiction

The creator of 'Hill Street Blues' discusses why passion is necessary in running a business.  Read more

Single Lines, Many Calls

New telecommunications system lowers a Corvette dealership's cost of doing business via satellite showrooms.  Read more

Sweetener in a Salty Plan

One company cut health-insurance costs by limiting coverage and setting up flexible spending accounts for workers.  Read more

When Staffers Track Results

To make employees aware of cash flow, one company has every employee track numbers.  Read more