236 Posts found for Source: Inc. Magazine

Control is a mirage. The most effective leaders right now–men and women–are those who embrace traits once considered feminine: Empathy. Vulnerability. Humility. Inclusiveness. Generosity. Balance. Patience.

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business

Norm Brodsky explains what he looks for when hiring people for his companies.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Norm Brodsky | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Human Resources

Complaints are super helpful. Suggestions? Not so much.

Content: Article | Author: Phil Libin | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Customer Related

Paul Graham, Jim Collins, Tony Hsieh, and other business leaders share the questions you should be asking if you want to improve your company.

Editor’s Note: for more insightful business questions, check out another site I run, mgmtquestions.com

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

Call it a more sophisticated LinkedIn. It might just be the magic bullet for business development.

Editor’s Note: this is a somewhat topical article and the companies of importance will certainly change rapidly, but the underlying topic is of long-term interest. I was a bit disappointed that internal corporate network mapping and research wasn’t discussed more or tied to the larger idea.

Content: Article | Author: Greg Lindsay | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

10 million unemployed. Yet employers’ No. 1 problem is finding the right talent.

Content: Article | Author: Cait Murphy | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Human Resources

Success at a startup means winning in the air and on the ground. Being a visionary isn’t enough. You also need to nail the day-to-day operations.

Content: Article | Author: Eric Paley | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Patagonia’s founder still loves to blaze a trail. He takes copious time off, lets employees manage themselves, and tells customers not to buy his products.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Liz Welch, Yvon Chouinard | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Management, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The world’s top minds in business explain their most important lessons. Includes: John Mackey, Evan Williams, Danny Meyer, Tony Hsieh, Phil Libin, Arianna Huffington, Teresa M. Amabile, Michael Mauboussin, Bob Metcalfe, Michael Useem, Roger L. Martin

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous

New research offers insights into how venture capitalists make funding decisions. The Breakdown:
30.4% – Potential Return
27% – Founders’ Experience
26.4% – Market Readiness
6.6% – Regulatory Exposure
6.4% – Social Connection with Founders
3.2% – Lead investor

Content: Article | Author: Daniel McGinn | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Is boring suddenly good…and inspirational bad? Stanford professor Bob Sutton explains what he’s learned from hundreds of conversations with Silicon Valley’s brightest stars.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Leigh Buchanan, Robert I. Sutton | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Leadership

What do you think it means to be an expert in “hard-to-get elicitation”? It means people tell you things. A competitive intelligence consultant discusses things that can help a business–at the expense of another.

Content: Article | Author: George Chidi | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Competitive Intelligence

The leadership expert sits down with Inc. editor-at-large Bo Burlingham to talk about what makes great companies tick.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Bo Burlingham, Jim Collins | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, People

Every fast-growth company eventually runs into at least one of these all-too-common obstacles. How you handle them can make the difference between success and high-speed smashup.

Content: Article | Author: Kimberly Weisul | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

When I was just getting started as a CEO, I had a stupid way of thinking about employees. I thought that I was pretty good at doing a large number of things and I could do most of my employees’ jobs better than they could. And I was probably right. After all, why would anyone really great want to work for that kind of boss? … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Phil Libin | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

The worst managers try to manage behind a desk. The only way to manage is to walk around and talk to people. But I don’t just walk around asking, “How are things going?” I have some specific thing in mind that I want to talk to that person about.

Content: Quotation | Author: Yvon Chouinard | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Management

Larry Potterfield, founder of the shooting-supply company MidwayUSA, is obsessed with management excellence: quantifying it, developing systems to produce it, and spreading it far and wide.

Content: Case Study | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Best Practices | Company: MidwayUSA

Meet lots of different people without trying to extract value from them. You don’t need to connect the dots right away. But if you think about each person as a new dot on your canvas, over time, you’ll see the full picture.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tony Hsieh | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Creativity, Personal Development

It’s easy to convince yourself you know something until you have to explain it to someone else. Then the truth comes out.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jason Fried | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Communication, Education, Knowledge, Learning

A lot of companies get into strategy creep. They just keep adding technologies, adding services, adding customers they’d like to serve. The cost of breadth is often edge–you lose sight of the thing that makes you different.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cynthia A. Montgomery | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Strategy