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Recent Office and Operations Articles

5 Tips for Managing a Decentralized Workforce

Follow this five-step program to help you manage a workforce scattered over various offices and locations.  Read more

Avoid Email Overload: 5 Tips 

Here's how to manage your inbox. Advice from Daniel Ha, co-founder of DISQUS, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.  Watch video

Cut Your Own Checks? You Don't Have To

As a small business, focus on what you do best. Leave most everything else up to high-speed connections, software-as-a-service vendors, and the "cloud."  Read more

Is Organization the Enemy of Creativity?

Nope, even Michelangelo embraced constraints. But don't take it too far; process shouldn't be perfect. Here's why.  Read more

Is Your Home-Based Business Illegal?

Hey, apartment entrepreneurs: You might be breaking the law. Or several laws. Here's your legal checklist for running a business from home.  Read more

How Would You Fix the TSA?

Six entrepreneurs offer some insightful and potentially stress-relieving ways to improve the infamous travel agency.  Read more

4 Best Portable Keyboards

Having trouble finding the perfect keyboard? Check out these top picks.  Read more

Tech Trends: Leave the Laptop Behind

Hate lugging your laptop to presentations? Check out cool apps that let you leave the laptop at the office.  Read more

3 Killer Mobile Monitors

Check out these lightweight displays for dazzling demos.  Read more

What I Pack: Inside the Bags of Road Warriors

What must-bring gear should you pack on your next business trip? We asked a few hard-working road warriors that very question. Here's a look inside their tra...  View slideshow

Squeeze 25 Hours Into a Day 

Increase your productivity. Get yourself in the zone. Tips from Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation , and Scott Gerber, founder of the ...  Watch video

'There's No Glamour in Travel' 

Redbox executive Mark Achler talks about constant traveling and being away from his family.  Watch video

Howard Tullman's Routine at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy 

Tullman likes to see students collaborate and bring media ideas to life. Both are also good for business.  Watch video

Disruption Comes (Finally!) to Commercial Real Estate

How Jason Freedman and 42Floors cooked up a killer business idea that could turn commercial real estate on its head.  Read more

Do It Today: A Small Business Check-Up 

Tips to make sure your is business healthy from Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder of Gilt Groupe, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.  Watch video

Is the Travel Agent Dead?

Despite business travelers who insist on DIY hotel and airfare websites, travel agencies have managed to not only remain relevant, but expand business.  Read more

How Uber Taxi Rolls Out City by City 

Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, explains the local market approach he took to grow his car service in seven U.S. cities, Paris, and Toronto. Up next? Asia.  Watch video

How I Did It: Tumi's Charlie Clifford

The iconic luggage brand is going public at $18 a share. Here's how Charlie Clifford parlayed his love of Peruvian crafts into one of the globe's top luggage...  Read more

Your Travel Bag Must-Haves

After speaking with travel and packing experts, we have compiled a list of necessities every frequent traveler needs to have on hand and ready to go!  Read more

7 Best Extended Stay Hotels

For employees on an extended stay business trip, comfort becomes a premium. But sometimes they are unavoidable. If you find yourself on the road for a long-t...  View slideshow

8 Best Alternative Airports in America

Discover what some of America’s little-known gems--smaller airports--have to offer. Inc. reveals a list of some of the best alternative airports where you ...  View slideshow

10 Most Frustrating Air Travel Rules & Regulations

Some air travel rules come across as confusing, frustrating, or even worthy of a Liz Lemon--style meltdown. Here are ten edicts that raise eyebrows and blood...  View slideshow

10 Best Apps for Travel (& They’re Free!)

Plan and make bookings. Organize notes. Submit expense reports. Before you run out of juice find Wi-Fi. If you’re too juiced…find your way, easily, back ...  View slideshow

6 Amazing Airport Perks

Delays, cancellations, layovers--who cares? These airports will tempt you with anything from extreme shopping to luxury spas, museums, theaters, tropical gar...  View slideshow

Let Your Employees Design the Office. Seriously.

How office design anarchy worked for one software firm looking to apply lean ideals to its workspaces.  Read more

Problem with Open Office Plans

Does easy communication outweigh noisy distraction at the workplace?  Read more

Beating Baggage-Fee Blues

With airlines charging domestic fliers around $100 for bags of 71 pounds or more, some luggage-shipping services are stepping up to compete.  Read more

A Fashion Founder's Preflight Essentials

Things I can't live without: Former investment banker Veeral Rathod co-founded J. Hilburn. He shares his travel must-haves.  Read more

Hanging on the Telephone

You don't need a receptionist to handle your calls. New cloud-based office phone systems can help.  Read more

Hop to It: Task Services for Business

Tech trends: Here's how to use task services, which let you post odd jobs online, for your business.  Read more

Take Control of Your Outsourcing Now

Here's how to maintain performance even when you don't have complete control.  Read more

How to Save On Business Travel 

Six tips from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, and Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of 99designs.  Watch video

Run Your Business From Anywhere: 9 Tips 

You don't have to be beholden to a particular location. Advice from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council and Andrew Lock, owner of HelpMyB...  Watch video

How the Motor City Got Its Groove Back

Home to a burgeoning concentration of tech start-ups and incubators, Detroit's "Webward Avenue" is not just a street--it's also a movement. Can it transform ...  Read more

Out of Sight, Top of Mind

How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map.  Read more