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Barbarians to Bureaucrats

CEO recommends reading Barbarians to Bureaucrats as a guide to diverse personality types within an organization.  Read story

Growth Strategies: Sell Mates

An applications software developer makes sales, not technology, the driving force for the entire company.  Read story

State of the Art: CD-ROM Marketing

Three start-ups that are exploring opportunities in CD-ROM marketing are featured in this short article.  Read story

Great Expectations

High-powered entrepreneurs develop a local operating network for home and factory automation.  Read story

Ask Inc: Do I Still Have the Right Stuff?

A company founder wonders whether the time has come to fire himself. Plus: How to handle problem employees.  Read story

May I Help You?

New live-chat software helps Web merchants convert browsers into buyers.  Read story

Skipping Ahead

A corporation provides workers with an annual meeting with their boss's boss to discuss job satisfaction.  Read story

Data Analysis Overload?

How to use Hadoop to analyze big chunks of data  Read story

The Rating Game

Before evaluating your employees, you might want to ask them what they're doing.  Read story

Advisers: Taxes 'R' Us

A CFO explains why she feels that having only one tax advisory firm can keep costs down.  Read story

Inc. 5,000 Index

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster

How should Netflix fight back against Blockbuster? CEOs weigh in.  Read story

The Irresistible Customer Questionnaire

A look at a magazine for children produced to support specific software and to survey the kids who use it.  Read story

Setting the CEO's Salary

Various self-compensation strategies by growth-company CEOs.  Read story

Move Over, Sony

Just when everyone has written off consumer electronics, a few firms are bucking the trend. Can America make computers if it can't make TVs?  Read story

Phone Improvement

A close-up look at a start-up that focused on the market first, and then created a product for that market.  Read story

Offshore Drilling

Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms.  Read story

The New Face of Self-Employment

At Indigo Partners, the rules are different. Unlike traditional entrepreneurs, Indigo's partners aren't scrambling to grow a company; their joy is in the wor...  Read story

Selling The Brooklyn Bridge

As it turns out, it is a lot like selling bananas, or pain relievers, or floppy disks.  Read story

The Apple Tree

How Apple Computer contributed to the founding of more than 100 companies by its employees.  Read story

The Most Dangerous Hire

For years you've crowed about the company you built. Now it's time to hand over the reins. Here are answers to some questions you've asked -- and some you ha...  Read story

When The Magic Goes

The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies...  Read story

The New Science of Hiring

Care to dramatically enhance your chance of finding great employees? Trade in your gut instincts for a systematic approach to interviewing, testing, and eval...  Read story

Enduring Lessons From a Short War

Over the course of 21 days of war, seven companies faced a test: Would their best-laid plans work? And if not, could they quickly adapt?  Read story

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