June 1, 2001
Inc.'s editor-in-chief explains why now is a great time to buy out your boss.
Readers respond to Norm Brodsky's March Street Smarts column, "Deciding To Grow." Also responses to recent stories on customer service and recruitment.
Worried that the economy is tanking? Don't fret. Even when times are bad, your company can still find ways to thrive.
In the nonpartisan spirit of entrepreneurship, some companies offer ingenious responses to last year's unpleasantness at the polls.
Lights! Camera! Options! A new film dissects the sad but all too familiar tale of an Internet start-up.
A Denver telecommunications company is undone by its national ambitions.
Your game plan for 2001: Raise cash. Focus on marketing and sales. And suppress optimism, which can blind you to economic reality.
Valuations are down, investment capital is abundant, and skilled, seasoned managers are scarce. There's never been a better time to buy the business you work for.
How one CEO bought his father's business.
Green Hills Farms, a small family grocery in upstate New York, has big companies around the country clamoring to know the secrets behind its powerful customer-loyalty program.
There's a lot of confusing and contradictory economic data out there. So we asked our CEOs and executives how to really read the economy.
How many years of trial and error -- and defeat -- can one man take in his quest to bring his product to market? Here's how one CEO overcame every conceivable obstacle in his journey into entrepreneurship.
In an economy where more and more companies are laying off employees, employment-practice liability insurance makes sense even for the most employee-friendly company.
How mom can be the key to your success.
Here's how one company made lemonade out of lemons by sending its own advertisements back to spammers.
How does Synergy CEO Dan Gould add meaning to his meetings? It's all in the timing.
A look at recruitment maestro Dan Caulfield's new idea to recruit from companies laying off senior-level employees.
The founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea reflects on how his inability to delegate led to his downfall.
Following in the footsteps of Delaware's business courts, several states are creating so-called technology courts.
CEO S. Kenneth Kannappan discusses how he discovered the key to motivating employees while working at his first job.
One way to get capital in hard economic times is to sell off part of your company.
Employees could stifle change if you let them. Here are some books that advise you how to get workers to buy in to new initiatives.
Can the founder of the company that brought you the ubiquitous Razor scooter make the phenomenon last?
The inside story of how one company survived extreme turnover.
How to contact companies, people, and organizations mentioned prominently in this issue.
Big Sur, big opportunity. Get a great deal on a well-situated California art gallery.
Links to this issue's CEO's Notebook of mini-articles on insuring against employment lawsuits, making meetings more meaningful, and the ingenious bargain that brings in top job candidates.
