Managing Creativity


Recent Managing Creativity Articles

Believe Nothing Is Impossible 

"I'm happy-go-lucky, and I'm ambitious."  Watch video

Coming Up with New Clothing Line Ideas 

Lara Miller's creative inspiration comes from architecture, Russian dolls, and Mexican textiles.  Watch video

Learning from Other Designers 

The eco-friendly fashionista says she could not have launched her business on her own.  Watch video

Without This Skill, You Won't Succeed

It doesn't matter what industry you're in. This is the one thing all successful people know how to do well.  Read more

Why Nice People Will Sabotage You

How to keep quiet politeness from killing your sales, marketing and probably your business.  Read more

Friday Fail: The Most Bizarre Interview

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and shame. Up this week: Awkward hiring situations.  Read more

Confessions of an Ex-Manager

Sure, there were successes along the way. But there were also mistakes--lots of them. An ex-manager reflects on his rookie days.  Read more

5 Smart Moves to Steal from the Tech Industry

Strategies every start-up and small business can take from Apple, Facebook, Google, and other leaders in high tech.  Read more

4 Brilliant Video Marketing Campaigns

Having trouble dreaming up a new Web campaign for your product or service? Borrow some ideas from these viral videos.  Read more

6 Major Tech Innovations for 2012

These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch.  Read more

Should You Pay to Launch to a Crowd?

Tech entrepreneurs flock to pricey events for the networking and the potential prize money. But there are cheaper ways to launch to the masses.  Read more

Hire Like Google: 5 Ways

Small businesses can't match the likes of Google in budget or branding. But you can steal this search-giant recruiter's best tips on snagging top talent.  Read more

Don't Promote from Within: 5 Reasons

Looking outside your company for new hires can be the best strategy--even for those on the inside.  Read more

Start-up Marketing: An Essential Road Map

How to spread the word when you're new to an industry, don't have a big budget, and have few people to help you do it.  Read more

The 9 Elements of Highly Effective Employee Praise

Step 1: Lose the Employee-of-the-Month program. (No one cares about it.) Here's the recognition your staff really deserves.  Read more

Why the Best Product Doesn't Always Win

Entrepreneurs often think only the best product will let them succeed. But sometimes 'best' isn't what your customers really want.  Read more

The Secret to Mastering Patience

Patience requires absolute control over your thoughts, words, and deeds. Here's how you can ace it.  Read more

Why 'Idea' Should Be a Verb

Ideas without action aren't ideas--they're regrets.  Read more

Note to Tech Start-ups: Cool Products Aren’t Enough

A hot mobile app that gets attention does not a company make. A better way: Build what people want and find a way to make it pay.  Read more

Can This Company Become the New Disney?

Rovio, the maker of the wildly popular Angry Birds game, has stolen a few pages from Disney's playbook. And it just might work.  Read more

The Difference Every Boss Can Make

How seemingly insignificant moments can have a lasting impact on your employees' lives.  Read more

8 Things Great Consultants Say

You may not want to hear some of these things--but your project will be better for it.  Read more

How to Land an Amazing Mentor: 5 Tips

Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe on how he found two mentors who taught him most of what he knows now about running a $130 million company.  Read more

Need an Idea for a Killer New Business? Try This.

DocStoc CEO Jason Nazar needed a new product idea that might help grow the business. He got it--in a week. Here's how.  Read more

How Behance Brings Order to Crazy Creatives

Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need--for better organization--with web tools, events, even notebooks.  Read more

How to Build a Great Team With Imperfect People

Your goal isn’t to ensure every employee is great; it's to ensure that collectively they'll be great. (There’s a big difference.)  Read more

How to Cultivate Collective Intelligence

Unleash your worker bees. The power of swarms and cooperation to attack business problems.  Read more

Why Premature Hype Kills Start-ups

If your beta product isn't ready for prime time, the last thing you need is attention from the media.  Read more

Why the Capital Gains Tax Hurts Entrepreneurs

The capital gains tax has been touted as the brass ring for business owners. But if you self-fund your growth, it's anything but.  Read more

Reid Hoffman Wants You to Invest His Money

The LinkedIn co-founder is lending $1 million to struggling entrepreneurs around the world and you can help decide who gets it.  Read more

How to Settle Employee Squabbles

The last thing you want to do is seem like you're taking sides. Here's how to handle interpersonal problems more gracefully.  Read more

To Be a Better Entrepreneur, Look to the Past

Sure, all entrepreneurs look to the future - but I've learned that the best ones don't overlook the past.  Read more

6 Ways to Measure the Success of Any Project

Want to go from the beginning to the end of a project more efficiently? Make sure your team understands what success should look like.  Read more

4 Principles Apple's Chief Designer Lives By

Jonathan Ive opens up about what makes Apple's design process work. Here's how to make it work at your company too.  Read more

7 Tricks for Every Founder’s Back Pocket

Why serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein says, among other things, that start-up founders should streak.  Read more