Managing Creativity


Recent Managing Creativity Articles

A Top Employee Quit: 5 Lessons Learned

Spend time recruiting the right people. Then spend just as much time making sure you keep them.  Read more

9 Qualities of Remarkable Entrepreneurs

What separates the best from everyone else? (Hint: It's not about the money.)  Read more

Taking On an Ambitious Project? Be Honest

It won't get you anywhere to gloss over the challenges of a new business venture. Three reasons why.  Read more

Friday Fail: Worst Bosses

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and embarrassment. This week: Your worst bosses.  Read more

'Your Best Employee Is Underpaid' 

Gilt CEO Kevin Ryan discusses how crucial it is to successfully manage your A-level employees. (Hint: Start with a raise.)  Watch video

3 Weird, Game-Changing Ways to Make Employees Happy

The founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, shares his strategies for sparking employee passion about your company. Step one: Introduce the "LoveMachine."  Read more

3 Ways to Build Trust In Your Managers

Trust is an essential part of strong leadership. Developing it requires time, patience--and coaching.  Read more

How to Find Your Next Great Idea

Sometimes it's smarter to ditch the dream of finding something brand new. Try riding someone else's wave instead.  Read more

Who Needs a Business Plan?

If you're ready to do the real work of launching a start-up, start here.  Read more

What's Wrong With the Lean Start-up

It sounds like straightforward enough advice to build a better business, but the approach has serious flaws.  Read more

Great Bosses Don’t Go Undercover

If you need a disguise to learn the truth about your company, you're doing something wrong. Here's how to do it right.  Read more

5 Laws of Business You’ve Never Heard Of

If Isaac Newton had studied companies, he would have discovered these principles that govern how managers work.  Read more

4 Embarrassing Yahoo Mistakes to Avoid

A CEO with false credentials is only the latest blunder the company has made. Check out the others--and how to avoid them.  Read more

From Def Jam Fan to Hip-Hop Entrepreneur 

Daymond John identified a cultural need for hip-hop fashion, and then grew FUBU into a $350 million (sales) clothing business.  Watch video

How FUBU's Daymond John Does Guerrilla Marketing 

To build momentum for the FUBU clothing brand, Daymond John enlisted rapper LL Cool J.  Watch video

Daymond John's Branding Secrets 

Daymond John, founder of FUBU, lost $6 million when he steered the clothing line into the music business.  Watch video

Best Online Marketing Trick? Go Offline

An online dating service got more than 100,000 sign-ups using posters and fliers. Here's how they did it.  Read more

25 Signs Your Ego Is Out of Control

A healthy dose of self-confidence is a very good thing for an entrepreneur... until it's not.  Read more

Stop Trying to Fix Your Worst Employees 

Kevin Ryan, Gilt Groupe's CEO, discusses how he determines whether he's hired the right employee for the job.  Watch video

7 Deadly Management Sins

How to identify--and root out--your worst human instincts before they infect your team.  Read more

10 Ways to Motivate Anyone

Understand the unique brain and personality types of your employees to keep them invested in work. You'll see amazing results.  Read more

Reinventing the Doughnut

Pastry chef Waylynn Lucas left the world of fine dining to open a hip doughnut shop in Los Angeles. Welcome to Fonuts.  Read more

7 Fatal Interviewer Mistakes

Job candidates aren't the only ones who screw up interviews. Here are seven blunders interviewers make--and how to avoid them.  Read more

Can Bonnaroo's Creators Build an Epic Foodie Festival?

It's the first year the Great Googamooga festival in Brooklyn puts the spotlight on dozens of local chefs and craft food-and-drink makers. If "food is the ne...  Read more

Forget Hobbies. Business Brings Fulfillment 

The most emotional--and fun--times for Howard Tullman are when he launches new products and businesses.  Watch video

How Howard Tullman Lures Talent 

Tullman talks about how he builds an exciting constantly-changing environment for Tribeca Flashpoint Academy students--and employees.  Watch video

Roll Up Your Sleeves. Lead By Example 

Innovation is as much about invention as it is about process improvements, shortcuts, and better systems.  Watch video

Showcase Your Business Accolades & Publicity 

Walk through Tullman's press room dedicated to 40 years of coverage of his business ventures and success.  Watch video

Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get Dirty 

As chief executive of Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, Howard Tullman works 80 to 100 hours each week to prepare digital media students for the real world.  Watch video

How Howard Tullman Markets Tribeca Flashpoint Academy 

At his for-profit school, the key metric Howard Tullman focuses on is student enrollment.  Watch video

Grind, Hustle & Payoff 

Enrollment at Howard Tullman's newest business venture, Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, has increased six-fold since it was founded in 2007.  Watch video

The Road to Success 

Tullman describes the path that led him to start Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, a digital-age vocational school.  Watch video

6 Books You Must Read

While most business books are interesting, most of them won't really change your professional or personal life. These can.  View slideshow

A Serial Entrepreneur's Next Big Bet 

Howard Tullman has built more than a dozen businesses in the last 40 years. His latest, Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, is a for-profit digital arts vocational s...  Watch video

Deliver on Deadline Every Time: 6 Tips

Don't let your project slide off the rails before it even starts. Keep your team on track and on time with these tips.  Read more