Granite Rock Company


How're We Doing?

One company's use of an annual report card from customers to measure competitive performance.  Read story

Line-Item Veto

It's one thing to adopt a strategy calling for better customer service. It's another to devise a mechanism that forces employees to pay attention when you...  Read story

The Change Masters

Profile of how Granite Rock Company stays ahead of the competition.  Read story

Pulling the Plug

A management expert explains that to make room for new projects, you must stop some old ones.  Read story

Info Gathering as Reflex

"The role of managers is to make sure there's a flood of information coming into the company,"says Bruce W. Woolpert, CEO of Granite Rock, a $100-million ...  Read story

EOY: Editor's Notes

Editor's notes on the EOY Socially Responsible category, Cajun Cola and Granite Rock.  Read story

The Best Small Companies to Work for

Profile of the best small companies to work for and their secrets to building a great workplace.  Read story

Leadership: Building Companies to Last

A study of companies that shows certain traits in visionary companies suggest basic rules for success.  Read story

What Comes Next?

A best-selling business author tells why products, strategy, and charismatic leadership will become things of the past.  Read story

Get to the Root

Discover the benefits of a product-service-discrepancy report in tracking your real problems.  Read story

The Learning Executive

A leading management guru tells why you need to put learning objectives before performance.  Read story

The Friction-Free Economy

As the barriers to competion evaporate, the world is becoming the small businessperson's oyster.  Read story

Is Your Company Web Site Turning Candidates Away?

Most corporate job sites are failing at one important goal: they make it difficult for candidates to apply for positions online. As a result, companies ar...  Read story

Rock through the Ages

Everyone's so caught up with the transformation the Internet has wrought that it's easy to forget that we've seen change before. One century-old quarry, Gran...  Read story

This Is How It's Done: Smart Business Moves

30 classic examples of innovation, from the Inc. archives  Read story

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