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The 30 Minute Meeting

Here are six ways to keep meetings short and sweet.  Read more

When Family Ties Lead to Growing Pains

The younger generation is taking over, but the founding father is averse to their growth strategy. Is an outside investor the answer?  Read more

7 Habits of the Ultra Wealthy

Is the secret to success hiding in plain sight? Here's what you need to know about getting ahead (that others don't).  Read more

What's Your True Definition of Success?

Don't let other people determine how you think about success. Define it for yourself.  Read more

How to Be Best in Show at SXSW

With so many companies clawing for attention at conferences, here's how some managed to stand out from the crowd at SXSW.  Read more

Doing Business in the Hardest Spots on Earth

In the midst of violence and privation, entrepreneurs just keep on building.  Read more

3 Tips for Women Who Want To Lead

Women who want to lead have their work cut out for them. Here's how to fight unhelpful expectations--and keep your own standards firmly in place.  Read more

The Young Entrepreneur Advantage

While the accelerator and incubator models are nothing new, the enthusiastic involvement of big corporations now jumping into the fray gives college start-up...  Read more

The Way I Work: Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia

Patagonia's founder still loves to blaze a trail. He takes copious time off, lets employees manage themselves, and tells customers not to buy his products.  Read more

Rewrite That Boring Job Description

Want to attract the A-players to work for your business? Here's what needs to be in the job description.  Read more

VC Kay Koplovitz: 'Tell Them How You're Going to Make Them Money'

What will help women founders seeking start-up financing? A focus on the investor return.  Read more

Help Your Employees Get More Done

If you want happy employees, then help them do their jobs faster and better. Here's how.  Read more

Why I Feel Sorry for Marissa Mayer's Baby

What sort of message is the Yahoo CEO sending to her employees -- and to the future workforce?  Read more

Bringing in Stars, and Letting Them Shine

It's not easy for me to delegate, but our company needs a seasoned manager. What I've learned.  Read more

What Richard Branson Could Teach Marissa Mayer

The hardest-working, top-performing people are also the ones who need the most flexibility.  Read more

Stellar Customer Experience: 4 Tips

Take a cue from other businesses that have excellent customer service and learn to incorporate those strategies into your business.  Read more

Amateur's Guide to Great Business Videos

For start-ups, there's an efficient way to get a lot of attention for your limited time and money. Here's how to make great videos without killing yourself.  Read more

12 Questions for Gary Vaynerchuk

We challenged Vaynerchuk--co-owner of wine retailer Wine Library, CEO of the social-media strategy firm VaynerMedia, and (he's set on it) future owner of the...  Read more

Inc. 5000 Profile: Front Row Motorsports

Here's how an underdog racing team challenges Nascar's elite.  Read more

How to Flunk a Job Interview

These common mistakes will ruin your chances of getting just about any job.  Read more

What Sheryl Sandberg's New Book Means for Women Entrepreneurs

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wants to start a revolution for women in the workplace. Inc. editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan explores the implications for women ...  Read more

4 Reasons You'll Fail at Entrepreneurship

If you're starting your own business for these four reasons don't do it.  Read more

Bobbi Brown: Always Keep Your Eyes Open

Before she built a beauty empire, Bobbi Brown gleaned business instincts from her Cadillac-selling grandfather.  Read more

Photos Are Social Media Gold

Here are five ways to use images to grow your follower base on social media.  Read more

3 Reasons to Treat Employees Like Family

Applying some basic family principles to your employees can go a long way to improving loyalty and retention--especially during tough times.  Read more

3 Tips for a Healthy Hiring Process

Hiring people who are not the right fit for your company is akin to catching a cold. Here's how to limit the extent of the illness to the rest of the company.  Read more

What Women Entrepreneurs Need Most 

The co-founder of Gilt Groupe says the difference between male entrepreneurs and female ones comes down to something men get that women don't.  Watch video

Help Your Business Get Social: 3 Free Tools

Get a lot of bang for no bucks with these free business-oriented platforms.  Read more

Think Like a 5-Year Old (the Best Leaders Do)

Want to grow your business? Reclaim your child-like sense of wonder, that endless curiosity about the world around you.  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Trevor Sumner

The founder of LocalVox offers a few choice words of wisdom for ambitious self-starters hunting for a mentor.  Read more

3 Secrets to Bill Gates' Extraordinary Success

Contrary to popular belief, the multi-billionaire founder of Microsoft is not a visionary, but an executor. Here's how.  Read more

When Business Gets Boring

You don't enjoy the work anymore, but retirement isn't all that far off. Chin up, or shove off?  Read more

Eli Broad: A Most Unreasonable Man

The business titan behind KB Home and Sun America--also an author, philanthropist and art collector--on the trait that brought him success. Hint: It's not co...  Read more

5 Easy Steps to Get Started on LinkedIn

If your customers are other businesses or have specific industry interests, you might want to give LinkedIn a second look.  Read more

3 Types of Poison Employees

Here are three types of employees that drag your company down, and how you can stop their bad behavior.  Read more