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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 more

Work and Family: Is Peaceful Coexistence Possible?

Apr 26, 2000

Working too much, worrying about work too much, neglecting family, neglecting self, experiencing conflict, dissatisfaction, depression: These problems are...  Read more

What Start-ups Don't Need Is Money

By Richard Florida |  Apr 1, 1994

Making the federal government a venture capitalist won't fix America's technology woes, says author.  Read more

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 more

IT Outsourcing Can Be Profitable - or a Headache

May 1, 1999

Here's how to strike a mutually beneficial partnership.  Read more

The Origin of the Entrepreneurial Species

By George Gendron |  Feb 1, 2000

Inc. editor-in-chief George Gendron and Amar BhidÉ, author of The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, discuss BhidÉ's surprising conc...  Read more

Notebook

By Anne Murphy |  Jun 1, 1991

Paragraph reporting statistics on the effect of multiple founders on a start-up's chance for success.  Read more

Books About Business, and the CEOs Who Love Them

By George Gendron |  Jul 1, 1994

Joline Godfrey's reasons for recommending 'The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society.'  Read more

Agenda 5/06

By Stephanie Clifford |  May 1, 2006

Sports records abound this month; use Memorial Day to set one of your own.  Read more

A Guide to Profitable Direct Marketing

By Lois Geller |  Mar 12, 2003

Author Lois Geller explains how direct marketing can be tested, tracked, and most important, profitable.  Read more

Taking the Ethical Route to Business Success

Nov 9, 1999

A Better Way to Think about Business by Robert C. Solomon Oxford University Press, 1999, 240 pages, $23.50 Bu...  Read more

Everything They Know Is Wrong

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jan 1, 2000

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 more

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 more

Too Good to Be True: A Critique of Business Advice

May 1, 2000

Flawed Advice and the Management Trap by Chris Argyris Oxford University Press, 1999, 262 pages,$27. Check out ...  Read more

Global Business

Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer...  Read more

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 more

Organizational Behavior

The study of organizational behavior is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an ...  Read more

Clusters

Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that manufacture products or deliver services to a particular field or ...  Read more

The Inc. Network

By Inc. staff |  Dec 1, 1993

Reader to reader advice.  Read more

Book Value

By Paul B. Brown |  Sep 1, 2000

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 more

Reagan's Economic Legacy

By John Case |  Oct 1, 1988

The growing federal deficit has created apprehension even among Reagan supporters.  Read more

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 more

Quality Circles

Related Terms: Quality Control A quality circl...  Read more

Organizational Development

Organizational development (OD) encompasses the actions involved with applying the study of behavioral science to organizational change. It covers a wide ...  Read more

Innovate! Quick!

By John Case |  Aug 1, 1988

Innovation in marketing is important, but being successful also neccesitates growth management.  Read more