236 Posts found for Source: Inc. Magazine

Why so many entrepreneurs have trouble delegating.

Content: Article | Author: Alison Stein Wellner | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management

How blue staters and red staters can learn to communicate and do business.

Content: Article | Author: Adam Hanft | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous

Nineteen essential strategies for business owners. Includes How To…
…Work With a Partner (Year After Year After Year)
…Hire Wisely
…Fire Decisively
…Be a Great Boss
…Work (If You Must) With Your Spouse
…Groom a No. 2 (or, Gasp, a Successor)
…Keep an Assistant
…Star in an Ad (Without Looking Like an Idiot)
…Crack Big-Box Retail
…Spot Trouble in Your Financials
…Talk to an Investment … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms.

Content: Article | Author: Michelle Leder | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

It’s time for another soul-sapping, oxygen-depriving, time-wasting, mind-numbing company meeting. Or is it? We offer 15 clever solutions to the problems with most meetings.

Content: Article | Author: Patrick J. Sauer | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Management, Productivity / Work Tips

Entrepreneurs have long used psychological tests to screen potential employees. Here’s how to use tests to get more out of the workers you already have.

Content: Article | Author: Rod Kurtz | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

There are only so many hours in a day. Here’s what science says about getting the most out of them.

Content: Article | Author: Alison Stein Wellner | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Personal Development

Inc .’s June 2004 Special Report, “Sales What Works Now,” helps business owners pump up their sales with entrepreneurial advice on encouraging a sales team to sell more and how to put together an A-list sales force. You’ll also find 10 tactical tips from business owners as well as expert advice on winning complex sales. Along with a few Inc . classics on effective sales … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Marketing / Sales

PaeTec Communications is fiercely dedicated to two things: worker contentment and inexorable growth. The company’s relentlessly focused CEO takes personal responsibility for both.

Content: Article | Author: David Dorsey | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Leadership

Harvard professor and urban booster Michael Porter explains the vital role that growing companies play in the inner city.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Management

Breaking out the plastic is one way new entrepreneurs launch fledgling businesses. But it’s not the only way cash-strapped entrepreneurs realize their dreams of starting new businesses. Here, Inc.com scoured the Inc . archives for tips, strategies, and success stories of starting up on a shoestring.

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Finance

After years of flying solo, angel investors are forming into groups–and changing the rules for cash-hungry entrepreneurs.

Content: Article | Author: Suzanne McGee | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

With more and more reputable companies entering the factoring business, services have greatly improved. But factors` bottom line use remains the same: providing ready funds for companies in cash-flow-challenged industries.

Content: Article | Author: Martin Mayer | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Finance

Fresh from losing several billion dollars and his job at AOL Time Warner, Ted Turner returns to his entrepreneurial roots: “Leave your gun at the cash register and line up for work!”

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Management

What cutting-edge science tells us about mastering the art of the brainstorm. Plus: Why do the best ideas always seem to happen in the shower?

Content: Article | Author: Alison Stein Wellner | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Management

Suppose you could really figure out why advertising works.

Editor’s Note: discusses the Taguchi Method, something those with engineering and/or manufacturing backgrounds may have heard of.

Content: Article | Author: Robert X. Cringely | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Advertising, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Advertising

Once academic exercises for eggheads, college business-plan contests now offer competitors the chance to win sizeable chunks of cash and launch a business. No surprise: Entrepreneurs have begun to horn in on the action.

See related sidebar, “What Judges Look For” at:
Content: Article | Author: Patrick J. Sauer | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related

Every business has a magic number. By employing his, our columnist didn’t overstaff this year.

Content: Article | Author: Norm Brodsky | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Management, Small Business

When you know absolutely nothing about a skill, you are unconsciously incompetent — that is, you don’t know what you don’t know. As you learn more, you become consciously incompetent: you know what you don’t know. With training and practice you can become consciously competent, while total mastery makes you unconsciously competent, meaning that you use the skill so effortlessly that you’re not even aware … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Competence, Knowledge

If you want to be a better negotiator, you can buy 24 books, take 12 courses, and attend 7 seminars — or, you can read this article.

Editor’s Note: while I thought this article is worth reading, it hardly lives up to its claims…

Content: Article | Author: Rob Walker | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Personal Development