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A Brief Introduction

These entries are from a diary I started six months after quitting my day job as a business-book publisher on July 31, 1997, to go solo. The first six mon...  Read story

Creation Theory

Why is Haystack Toys cofounder Dan Lauer traveling the country and meeting with inventors? To test his theory that consolidation in the toy industry has sque...  Read story

How Would You Brand Susan Boyle?

If you could take recent "Britain's Got Talent" phenom Susan Boyle and give her a brand makeover, what would you do?  Read story

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read story

Soul Proprietor: Jon Bon Jovi

What's a rock star doing running a football team? Being entrepreneurial, for starters. Business owner Jon Bon Jovi talks with Inc. magazine.  Read story

The Cultural Evolution

Michael May of Empower Trainers & Consultants has developed an extraordinary corporate culture that helped put his company on the 1997 Inc 500 list.  Read story

The Mystery of The Blood Red Ledger

CEO Fred LeFranc quickly realized that something was poisoning the profits at Louise's Trattoria, and he didn't have long to find out what.  Read story

The Netty Professor

Marketing professor Bruce Weinberg's study of the online retail experience became something much bigger: a personal obsession with shopping on the Web. Does ...  Read story

Extreme Managing

Jack Hartnett, head of 54 Sonic restaurants, demands that employees follow his orders unquestioningly and assumes responsibility for their personal and profe...  Read story

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