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The Mentors
Kent Sutherland solicited Wal-Mart's Sam Walton as his business mentor 18 years ago and has prospered ever since. Here's where to find a mentor and the great... Read more
Sam Walton
Recent Articles about Sam Walton
The Learning Executive
A leading management guru tells why you need to put learning objectives before performance. Read more
The Enigma of Entrepreneurial Wealth
Essay on entrepreneurial wealth; adapted from Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise. Read more
Leadership: Building Companies to Last
A study of companies that shows certain traits in visionary companies suggest basic rules for success. Read more
The Sacred and the Mundane
Icons of business prove that the more things change, the more the important stuff remains the same. Read more
No-Excuses Ambition
Reviews of five new business books -- two on turning ambition into success; two on the complexities of an employee's connection to work; and one on how to st... Read more
Skipping Down the Path to Greatness
The Arc of Ambition by James Champy and Nitin Nohria (Perseus, 2000) The Visionary's Handbook by Watts Wack... Read more
The 1993 Inc. 500
Annotations to the 1993 Inc. 500 list. Read more
Family Planning: A Rough Guide to Business Succession
Succession planning isn't easy, but it is necessary. Start early and talk frequently, and you'll have an advantage. Here are some pointers and resources to l... Read more
How I Did It: Joe Sitt, Thor Equities
Transforming urban shopping, one skeptical town at a time. Read more
Real Estate: Educated work force? Check. Near the airport? Check.
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Do as We Say: Management Tips from the Masters
The Book of Management Wisdom edited by Peter Krass John Wiley, 2000,492 pages,$29 The Book of Management W... Read more
The Most-Admired Entrepreneurs
Attendees of this year's Inc. 500 Conference were asked to list the three active entrepreneurs whom they most admire. Not surprisingly, fellow
Who's Wired for the Bottom Line?
Here are four ways you can separate the money wasters from the money makers to ensure your company maintains a healthy bottom line. Read more
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 more
The Numbers on Open-book Management
Inc.'s editor looks at the effects open-book management can have on a company's bottom line; the mutual benefits of mentoring; and a photo lab that offers bu... Read more
Start-up Focus: Gateways to Space
A quick look at how a start-up creates educational videos that use astronauts to inform and entertain. Read more
Running the Gauntlet at Wal-Mart
The process of selling to the behemoth of Bentonville starts well before you push open the doors of its Arkansas headquarters. But it's within the fortress i... Read more
Why Start-ups Fail
A veteran entrepreneur explains that the capital problems start-ups have usually are a result of bad planning. Read more
Schwarzkopf On Leadership
General Norman Schwarzkopf discusses some of the principles that helped him win the Gulf War. Read more
Steal This Strategy
How one company grows and prospers by taking the best ideas from big companies. Read more
Twitter Creator Takes on PayPal
Twitter founder's next big thing . Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, says he "hate[s] getting change." So yesterday, he announc... Read more
Spies Like Us
An interview with Tom Stemberg, CEO and chairman of Staples, Inc. Stemberg describes the industry information he gathers by playing mystery shopper at his co... Read more
Avoiding the Tipping Point
Anyone who has ever been with a growing company from its early start-up days to any measure of significant size has undoubtedly experienced the tipping p... Read more
How to Use a Personal Asset Loan for Your Business
Need a loan, but don't have much to offer? Here's what to consider and how to protect yourself when using personal assets to secure a business loan. Read more
Finding a Mentor
Imagine having management guru Peter Drucker as your busin... Read more
Finding a Mentor
Imagine having management guru Peter Drucker as your busi... Read more
Growing Up in Public
Discussion of the 100 fastest-growing small public companies in the U.S. Read more
The Truth about Mentoring
Editor's note: Since this story was written in 1998, Inc. Online has become inc.com. What does it take to make the perfect mentoring match... Read more
Too Cuil for School
Sometimes we can learn more by watching other start-ups flounder, rather than fly. Just two months ago, the scrappy new search engine, Read more
Book Value
A business writer offers a reading list for entrepreneurs that includes many titles not related to business. Read more
When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
How one small town reacted to Wal-Mart's opening three stores in the area. Read more
Behind the Scenes
An inside look at the companies creating jobs and wealth in a recessionary economy. Read more
Bootstrap Banking
For decades, the federal government has tried in vain to bring entrepreneurship to the poor. Now, a small Chicago bank may have found the answer in -- of all... Read more
Sitting Pretty
For most inventors, the source of inspiration is often a dark and delicate mystery. Walter Hibbs, though, can pinpoint the exact moment he got the idea f... Read more
Paradise Lost
How one thriving bootstrapped company is trying to maintain its original identity in a time of rapid growth. Read more
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