Inc. Magazine: January 1, 1999
- Postcards From the Data-Smog Edge
- Inc. editor Bo Burlingham describes how his vacation to pastoral France let him escape faxes, phone calls, e-mail, and news, so he could finally get some work done.
- Letters
- Readers react to articles from the October 1998 issue of Inc., including Jill Andresky Fraser's "The Art of Cash Management" and Susan Greco's "The Wall.
- Upstarts: Year 2000
- The founder of Y2K News magazine explains why his millennium bug publication will survive past 1999. Plus, several shorter articles about how companies are tapping the millennium gold mine.
- Lawsuit Bursts Balloon of Party-goods Chain
- After losing its bank line of credit, party-supplies retailer K.G. Marx was hit with an unrelated shareholder lawsuit. Competition from discounters finally drove the company into bankruptcy.
- Not Your Father's Industry
- With relatively few experts inhabiting the E-commerce industry, many Web-company CEOs exchange ideas, council, and competitive secrets by sitting on each other's boards.
- How to Profit in the Coming Recession
- CEO Brodsky explains why the imminent economic recession could actually benefit your business if you know how to prepare. He offers four steps to turning a faltering economy to your advantage.
- Managing through Turbulent Times
- To keep your growing company on track during a volatile economic period, you should know the answers to these six basic questions.
- The Smartest Little Company in America
- To pinpoint elusive business trends among eclectic, nonquantitative sources of data, CEO Duncan Highsmith depends on a powerful knowledge-management tool--his librarian.
- Why You Feel the Way You Do
- In an excerpt from his book, "Data Smog," David Shenk explains why the surplus of information available through technology each day stresses us out and impairs our ability to make decisions.
- Confessions of an Information Sinner
- With his first business, Ron Bienvenu overloaded his newsletter subscribers with reams of extraneous information. Now his software system, SageMaker, sends only the information they need.
- CEO's Notebook
- CEOs give advice on: developing low-tech knowledge-management systems; boosting exposure through copromotions; testing products before bringing them to the market; and learning to delegate.
- What's Hot: Business Plans
- A guide to books and Web sites that can help you write a top-notch business plan. Resources include ways to make your business plan captivating and a list of supporting documents it should include.
- Index
- A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the January 1999 issue.
- Business for Sale: Mail-Order Catalog Company
- An overview of a mail-order catalog company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of the purchase.
- Data Data
- How much time people waste looking for lost information, how fast the World Wide Web is growing, and other statistics from the front lines of the info glut.
- Smog Lifters
- There are people out there who are even more information deluged than you are. Eleven of the smartest--and most beleaguered--reveal their personal regimens for keeping their heads above data.
