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Ideas in Motion

Suggestions on where to place your suggestions box.  Read more

Image Building

Creating a winning corporate image.  Read more

Tom Friedman Gets Why Youth Entrepreneurship Matters

If you missed Tom Friedman's OpEd piece in The New York Times yesterday on why the Obama administration needs to focus on youth entrepreneurship, please r...  Read more

Norm Brodsky on Exit Strategies

Planning to sell your business as you get closer to retirement  Read more

Perspective Provider of the Year

The word tough is thrown around in business all the time: a tough negotiator, a tough adversary. The word gets overused, so when someone like Read more

Leaders Share Their Inspiration: Mom, Dad, and Ayn Rand

Entrepreneurs from the 2009 Inc. 500 talk about the people who inspired them  Read more

The Way I Work: Jamie Latshaw of Lexicon

Jamie Latshaw is a stay-at-home mom. She also runs one of the fastest-growing companies in America.  Read more

5 Business Lessons Learned from Undercover Boss

It was one of this year’s reality show standouts, beloved by viewers for the dose of schadenfreude they’d get by seeing executives fail at attempting the...  View slideshow

You Can Get There from Here

Printing a map showing how to get to your store on the back of business cards.  Read more

The High Fives: The Top 5 Minority- and Woman-Run Companies

A look at some of the most interesting people and places on the Inc. 500  Read more

Ask and You Shall Receive

Company uses customer feedback from focus groups to hone its depth-sounding fishing device.  Read more

Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009

As part of our 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last , what we might expect in ...  Read more

Profiting from Politics

Whether John McCain or Barack Obama becomes the next president, a handful of entrepreneurs plan to enjoy -- and make money from -- this political season.  Read more

The Apprentice - Week 2

Unlike Carolyn, who seems to be turning into a total yes-man, I didn't agree with the Donald's firing decision last night. Sure, Bradford made a huge mist...  Read more

The Fastest-Growing Private Company of 2011

Paul Hurley of ideeli, the midmarket fashion juggernaut, on how he rose to the top of this year's Inc. 500  Read more

Once Is Not Enough

Why the marketing genius who made Perrier a household word has fizzled as a small-business consultant.  Read more

The Inc. 500 Honor Roll

You could write the book on business growth from the strategies of the companies that have made the INC. 500 five years running.  Read more

Special Financial Report: Employee Compensation

What should you pay employees in this crazy job market? A look at the new rules of compensation  Read more

Main Street, Inc.

Forget rebel, forget misfit, forget poor boy makes good. A new study shatters old myths about the entrepreneur.  Read more

Paradise Lost

How had it come to this? Reell Precision Manufacturing was supposed to be a different kind of company. For years, it thrived, leading its industry, generatin...  Read more

His Way

In which Chris Reed, the founder of a soda company, undertakes an initial public offering -- his way. What can go wrong does. What should go right doesn'...  Read more

The Nonstop, 24-7 CEO Salesman

Pat Cavanaugh not only sells more than just about anyone in his industry but also manages a fast-growing company at the same time. What's his secret? A perso...  Read more

Captive Company

Customer service, quality control, employee morale -- business is a whole different ball game when you're running a prison for profit  Read more

Notables '07

More great people, ideas, and businesses...  Read more

High Noon in Aisle Five

If Rupert Murdoch's boys rode into your company's territory, what would you do: run for the hills or stay and fight? In the tradition of Gary Cooper's greate...  Read more

Games Companies Play

This article examines how various business-people are using game-playing techniques to handle a wide variety of problems  Read more