Flow Charts
A flow chart, or flow diagram, is a graphical representation of a process or system that details the sequencing of steps required to create output. A typi... Read story
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Work and Family: Is Peaceful Coexistence Possible?
Working too much, worrying about work too much, neglecting family, neglecting self, experiencing conflict, dissatisfaction, depression: These problems are... Read story
What Start-ups Don't Need Is Money
Making the federal government a venture capitalist won't fix America's technology woes, says author. Read story
Organizational Growth
Growth is something for which most companies strive, regardless of their size. Small firms want to get big, big firms want to get bigger. Indeed, companie... Read story
Seat of the Pants
Everyone says that before you launch a company, you've got to write a business plan. So how come so many Inc 500 CEOs skipped that sober exercise? Read story
IT Outsourcing Can Be Profitable - or a Headache
Here's how to strike a mutually beneficial partnership. Read story
The Origin of the Entrepreneurial Species
Inc. editor-in-chief George Gendron and Amar BhidÉ, author of The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, discuss BhidÉ's surprising conc... Read story
Notebook
Paragraph reporting statistics on the effect of multiple founders on a start-up's chance for success. Read story
Books About Business, and the CEOs Who Love Them
Joline Godfrey's reasons for recommending 'The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society.' Read story
Taking the Ethical Route to Business Success
A Better Way to Think about Business by Robert C. Solomon Oxford University Press, 1999, 240 pages, $23.50 Bu... Read story
A Guide to Profitable Direct Marketing
Author Lois Geller explains how direct marketing can be tested, tracked, and most important, profitable. Read story
Agenda 5/06
Sports records abound this month; use Memorial Day to set one of your own. Read story
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-benefit analysis is the exercise of evaluating a planned action by determining what net value it will have for the company. Basically, a cost-benefit... Read story
Everything They Know Is Wrong
Reviews of four new business books -- one on distinguishing good management advice from bad, one on taking your company public, and two self-help prescriptio... Read story
Global Business
Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer... Read story
Organization Theory
An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor. An orga... Read story
Organizational Behavior
The study of organizational behavior is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an ... Read story
Too Good to Be True: A Critique of Business Advice
Flawed Advice and the Management Trap by Chris Argyris Oxford University Press, 1999, 262 pages,$27. Check out ... Read story
Clusters
Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that manufacture products or deliver services to a particular field or ... Read story
The Inc. Network
Reader to reader advice. Read story
Business Cycles
The business cycle is the periodic but irregular up-and-down movement in economic activity, measured by fluctuations in real gross domestic product (GDP) ... Read story
Reagan's Economic Legacy
The growing federal deficit has created apprehension even among Reagan supporters. Read story
Book Value
Reviews of two business books -- one featuring the business wisdom of Elizabeth I and one with tips on organizing your life. Also, why the book publishing in... Read story
Quality Circles
Related Terms: Quality Control A quality circl... Read story
Organizational Development
Organizational development (OD) encompasses the actions involved with applying the study of behavioral science to organizational change. It covers a wide ... Read story
Innovate! Quick!
Innovation in marketing is important, but being successful also neccesitates growth management. Read story
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