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Ideas in Motion

Suggestions on where to place your suggestions box.  Read story

Image Building

Creating a winning corporate image.  Read story

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 story

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

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

You Can Get There from Here

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

Ask and You Shall Receive

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

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 story

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 story

Once Is Not Enough

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

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 story

Special Financial Report: Employee Compensation

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

Main Street, Inc.

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

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 story

Captive Company

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

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 story

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 story

Games Companies Play

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

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 story

Notables '07

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

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