U.S. Armed Forces Activities

The Art of the Woman Warrior

Two former Marines offer management training strictly for businesswomen.  Read more

Managing on the Front Lines

What the Marine Corps has learned about management from the Iraq War.  Read more

Managing from A to Z

Looking for a metaphor for business? As our A-to-Z compendium of similes and analogies will show, any metaphor you can think of has probably been used before.  Read more

Preparing for Business Battles? Learn Some Lessons from the Marines

Wharton Leadership Ventures, a program of the school's Center for Leadership and Change ...  Read more

In a Former Life: Chris Rooney

CHRIS ROONEY, 58 Present life: Rooney is the CEO of Cignal Global Communications Inc., a three-year-old teleco...  Read more

Corps Values

The U.S. Marines are trained to make split-second decisions based on incomplete information, in life-or-death situations. Can they provide clues to running a...  Read more

Glory Days

General Bill Creech of TAC definitely has the right idea. I experienced what he talks about firsthand in World War II while in the U.S. Navy. The intersq...  Read more

Case Study

Government contractor DefenseWeb Technologies ponders a new career in the private sector.  Read more

Top Gun

For Danny Hamilton, most days are pretty standard. He wakes up in a Ogden, Utah, subdivision, puts on a blue blazer and button-down shirt, kisses his wif...  Read more

Racket Busters

Ed Cornwell unsuccessfully tried incorporating his ferroconcrete into boat-building and fireproofing materials before finally settling on a sound idea: noise...  Read more

Business Groups Protest Iraq Bill

The groups want Congress to consider a minimum-wage increase and tax cuts as separate legislation.  Read more

Onward Through the Fog

Inc.'s editor-in-chief reviews General A.M. Gray's book 'Warfighting,' and finds it a must read.  Read more

Pulp Addiction

A close-up look at the struggles one job-placement firm endured as it moved toward a paperless workplace.  Read more

How I Did It: Steven Sliwa, CEO and president, The Insitu Group

As told to Kasey Wehrum Industry: Defense 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: ...  Read more

It was, perhaps, one of the longest development efforts on record for a consumer product. Whitcomb Judson received his first patents in the early 1890s. I...  Read more

Disagreement With Drucker

I have to take exception to Peter Drucker's remark about government service not attracting good people -- that the typical employee is a time-server. <...  Read more

Dressed for Success

Inc. magazine's editor-in-chief discusses ZapMe CEO Rick Inatome's new look, new online competitors to traditional small businesses, ethics question...  Read more

Dressed for Success

em Inc. /em magazine's editor-in-chief discusses ZapMe CEO Rick Inatome's new look, new online competitors to traditional s...  Read more

Thriving on Bureaucracy

How information technology enabled a building contractor to work efficiently with the government.  Read more

Businesses Invited to Partner with the U.S. Army

Nov. 2, 2006 -- The 10th annual U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Small Business Conference will be held November 13-15 in Saint Louis, Missou...  Read more

Army Tech Conference in Orlando

Nov. 17, 2006 -- The U.S. Army will host its biennial science and technology conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando...  Read more

Character and Caring: Business Lessons from Three Military Officers

Military metaphors abound in the world of business. Companies rarely enter new markets; they usually "invade" them. When businesses ponder geographic expa...  Read more

Straight to the Source

Reviews of eight new business books -- five on leadership secrets from historical figures, one chronicling the story of the first computer, and two delineati...  Read more

Company, Halted

What happens to a business when the owner is called to duty?  Read more

Facebook Valuation, Google Vanity, and Tesla on Letterman

What's Facebook worth? Facebook is negotiating with investors as it tries to raise additional capital, the New York Post Read more

Ready, Aim, Hire

New business finds employment for discharged military personnel.  Read more

War Games, Civilian Edition

Career soldier Donald Paquin survived two combat tours in Vietnam and 21 years of tough duty for the U.S. Army. But when he became a private businessman ...  Read more

Search: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2002 edition of the best business stories, the art of interference, and a Web site that serves as a CEO refresher course.  Read more

Got Guts?

An interview with Bob Lutz, the former vice-chairman of Chrysler. Lutz describes common mistakes companies make when designing new products and explains what...  Read more

The 5% Solution

The founder and CEO of PSS/World Medical Inc. explains how he keeps his company poised for future growth by maintaining a reserve sales force of 50 reps--5% ...  Read more

Data Duty

The founder of Hire Quality recounts how he turned his business around by learning to manage information instead of people.  Read more

Iraq-Bound SBA Official Eyes Congress

Pledging to invest in the nation's small businesses, a former Small Business Administration official who was recently recalled to active duty in Iraq is m...  Read more

A Theory By Any Other Name

Something like Theory F permeates much of our big business. Businesses grow so large that safety and caution become more key to strategy than the entrepr...  Read more

The Storm Before the Calm

Might war with Iraq spur economic growth? And what will it mean for small companies?  Read more

Leading Up: The Art of Managing Your Boss

True or false: Leaders have followers, but not all followers are subordinates. Quite true, says management professor Read more

Frederick W. Smith Of Federal Express: He Didn't Get There Overnight

The history of Federal Express Corp. has become a parable of sorts. Some feel that the significance of the company is that it created a $3-billion industr...  Read more

FYI: Redesigning the CEO

Inc.'s editor looks at how companies use creativity as a competitive advantage; Britain's equivalent of the Inc. 500; and CEOs who've profited by selling and...  Read more

Notes From The Guest Register

Inc.'s editor relates memorable quotes from business owners who've dropped by the office for lunch; plus, he addresses the fear many entrepreneurs have that ...  Read more

Four-star Management

It's one of the most dramatic turnarounds of our time. And most surprising, it happened in the U.S. Air Force.  Read more

Targeting the DHS

The Department of Homeland Security has $40 billion to spend. Here’s how to get a piece of it.  Read more