Paul Hawken

Planning For "the Next Economy"

Paul Hawken's provocative approach to corporate strategy is more than just small talk.  Read story

How To Grow A Business Book

While literary agents, publishers, and would-be authors were lamenting the demise of the recent business-book boom, Paul Hawken was signing a contract for...  Read story

To Tell The Truth

Rarely do I have the time to read an article twice. However, for Paul Hawken's "Truth or Consequences" (August) I made an exception. Candor and integrity...  Read story

To Tell The Truth

I look forward to more work by Paul Hawken, and I hope his article was a harbinger of a more active role in helping small, small business to complement yo...  Read story

The Pr People Vs. Hartman

I have no apologies for the incompetents in my profession. Heaven knows, we have them. But any experienced public-relations person can match horror stor...  Read story

Should You Start a Business?

Entrepreneurs discuss making the decision to start a business.  Read story

How Much Is Enough?

Chart of the number of catalogs sent to prospects before giving up.  Read story

The Ecology of Commerce

Essay on the responsibility of business to society and the environment. (Letters to the Editor in the July '92 issue.)  Read story

The Complete New-Business Survival Guide

Inc.'s catalog of the best books, agencies, networking groups and information sources for the self-educating CEO.  Read story

Can Business Still Save The World?

Meet the new breed of socially responsible CEOs. They share the goals of activist pioneers like Body Shop cofounder Anita Roddick and Ben Jerry's...  Read story

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Between hard covers. Two books by INC. columnists have been published this fall: David L. Birch's Job Creation in America: How Our Smallest Companies Put...  Read story

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship comes from entrepreneur, anglicized from the original French word. It means someone who undertakes something. Merriam-Webster defines "e...  Read story

Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You

Doonesbury creator markets products to benefit human rights and homeless causes.  Read story

The Business Owner's Bookshelf

30 books you should read and put to use  Read story

I Have Seen the Future

Reviews of five new business books, including two books on the power of personal vision, two books about capitalizing on the aging population, and one book o...  Read story

Business Expansion

The economy is notoriously cyclical. It expanded forcefully in the 1990s reaching a peak growth of 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 1999. Growth ...  Read story

The Changing Of The Guard

CEOs Ben Cohen and Paul Hawken are questioning their business motives and looking for greener pastures.  Read story

Seven Steps to Doing Good Business

Devising a system of commerce and production in which each and every act is sustainable and restorative.  Read story

The Debate Continues

I take a dim view of informal incentive schemes, having seen their divisive effects at a small software firm (120 employees). The president was enamored o...  Read story

The Debate Continues

Every successful company I have had included an incentive program for all employees. Every company that lacked one had mediocre performance at best, even ...  Read story

The Debate Continues

Tom Peter's point is well taken that more managers should observe the effects of negative feedback, criticism, and punishment. At our small, growing vide...  Read story

The Debate Continues

The real issue here is the need to generate energy in the workplace, but there's a point at which incentives and positive reinforcement become absurd. Ver...  Read story

The Debate Continues

Where is it written that competition must be between individuals or groups? The best competition pits employees against the forces that would keep them fr...  Read story

Newsbreakers

Short blurbs about business leaders in the news.  Read story

Required Reading

An introduction to Paul Hawken's 'The Ecology of Commerce'.  Read story

The Seven (Almost) Deadly Sins of High-Minded Entrepreneurs

The high price of running a socially responsible business.  Read story

Postscripts

Your article confirms my belief that a few good, brave men are responsible for the major social changes we have experienced over the past 30 years. I am a...  Read story

Network: March 1990

Network new queries.  Read story

Dream Team

Inc.'s start-up all-stars for 1989.  Read story

The Pr People Vs. Hartman

Publicity is just one tool of public relations. Public relations is an organization's efforts to win the cooperation of groups of people -- employees, cu...  Read story

The Pr People Vs. Hartman

Richard Roth spent time and effort researching Hartman because he stood to earn $13,700 for an article in your magazine. But was it really in Koss's inte...  Read story

Identity Crisis

Tom's of Maine CEO goes through a period of disillusionment as his company becomes more professionalized.  Read story

Business Book Reviews - Book Review - Business Books

The 30 Greatest Business Books of All Time

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Too Many Heartbreaks

Never has a magazine article brought forth in me so much emotion as your article on Bill Rodgers. About 10 years ago, I started a small food-processing c...  Read story

Too Many Heartbreaks

I was moved by the Bill Rodgers story. I had a similar experience with a bank. After a seven-year relationship, it suddenly decided to change the deal, a...  Read story

Too Many Heartbreaks

We in the Midwest can relate to Bill Rodgers's story. I'm a manufacturer myself, but I saw the way banks here treated the farmers. It seemed as though th...  Read story

Too Many Heartbreaks

As I was reading your story, I literally shook with rage, because it struck such a familiar chord. A year ago, our bank loan officer left her job. Soon a...  Read story

Postscripts

Patagonia is able to ignore the fundamental precepts of direct-mail marketing because it is not a mail-order business. Its success is due to a highly ded...  Read story

Too Many Heartbreaks

As an attorney, I have seen much the same treatment to my clients that Bill Rodgers received from Bank of Boston. It is obvious to me that banks would rat...  Read story