Abraham Lincoln

Scorecard;

Running the United States from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue requires many of the skills of a corporate chief executive. But few Presidents arrived at the Whi...  Read more

Presidential Wisdom for Entrepreneurs

Here's a trivia question: Who's the only U.S. president to receive a patent? No, not Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln! This month, we observe Pres...  Read more

For a print shop owner in Springfield, Mass., business was not exactly fun and games. During the 1860 Presidential race, his portraits of the clean-shaven...  Read more

Agenda 11/05

Thanksgiving is this month's main event, and while we encourage seconds, beware the toll that tryptophan can have on personal productiv...zzzzzzz.  Read more

Abraham Lincoln's Financial Adviser Slept There

On Wednesday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Oct. 22, local members of the Greater New York business community got together on the shores of Stamford, CT, then dow...  Read more

The Offer, Part One

You'd think he'd be celebrating, but our columnist has discovered that getting a great offer for your business can be a very scary proposition.  Read more

Will Texas Textbook Decision Spur On E-Readers?

Just removed from the 8th grade social studies curriculum in Texas: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Let...  Read more

How Great Leaders Thrive in Tough Times

Chester Arthur, who served as President of the United States from 1881 to 1885, will never be regarded as one our great leaders. In fact, many Americans w...  Read more

An Inc. 500 President?

When we asked Inc. 500 CEOs whom they favor in next year's presidential elections, Rudolph Giuliani led the field, capturing 17 percent of survey response...  Read more

The Character of Your Web Content

The only way we stand a chance of having the content of our business character judged in the age of social media is by creating Web content that is full of c...  Read more

The Donald - Week 9

With our resident Apprentice expert, Nadine, at the Inc. 500 Conference in Arizona this week, the task of providing this week's play-by-play falls to me, ...  Read more

Public Policy: What Does Business Really Want from Government?

This article explains how government must reinvent economic and regulatory policies to match today's marketplace.  Read more

Book Value

A business writer offers a reading list for entrepreneurs that includes many titles not related to business.  Read more

Out Of The Minds Of Babes

Almost half the patents issued last year by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office went to foreigners -- a far cry from the mere 11% that foreigners won a q...  Read more

Oprah Gets Psyched

How Oprah gets psyched for boardroom showdowns -- and other pearls overheard at the nation's top daylong conference of female execs.  Read more

Survey

Survey responses from Inc. 500 CEOs on a variety of small business and economic issues.  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the October issue of Inc., including Jim Collins's "What Comes Next?," Hendrix Niemann's "The End of the Story," and Marc Ball...  Read more

The Sacred and the Mundane

Icons of business prove that the more things change, the more the important stuff remains the same.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch

Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch

Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey.  Read more

Behind the Scenes

An inside look at the companies creating jobs and wealth in a recessionary economy.  Read more

Selling Out

National Content Liquidators makes its profits when other companies have lost theirs.  Read more

Stooge Law

Courtroom computer applications are examined in this article that focuses on a small law office.  Read more

Getting Paid

How to make collecting bills as much a part of daily business as making sales.  Read more

Supersalesman Chuck Sussman

From Sauna Pants to the INC. 500: the hilarious confessions of a mail-order maestro.  Read more

Out of the Ordinary

Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO who turned around a no-growth roofing business.  Read more

Is This Any Way to Run a Family?

Hoping to inspire, to teach responsibility and instill determination, Tom Parsons decided to start a business with his 15-year-old son. It seemed like a good...  Read more

All The Right Moves

John Koss did it all: hired a professional manager, moved production offshore, diversified his product line -- then watched his company and his personal fort...  Read more

Brief Profiles of 2001 Inc 500 Companies

Unusual stories and interesting statistics about companies on the 2001 Inc 500 list.  Read more