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What You Can Learn From Romney’s Inauthenticity

Communication is the gateway to connect with your constituents. Here's how to be open, honest, and sincere. Mitt Romney may be in danger of throwing away his front-runner status in the Republican presidential primary

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Why You Need an Advisory Board

An outside perspective is critical to building the future of any business, big or small. As we built our business from a bedroom start-up to an Inc. 500 company, our priorities were creating a differentiated offer to our customers, building a world-class team, and managing cash flow to keep us afloat as the business grew

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Leadership Lessons From Community Maven Tara Hunt: When Not To Listen To The Crowd

Any entrepreneur or community-building connector worth their salt should know when to crowdsource, and when to listen to their inner voice. Tara Hunt is having a bit of a disconnect. Which is odd considering Hunt’s networked her rising star into the connected constellation of the social web for the greater part of the past 15 years.

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Inc. Picks: Questions for the President

We asked members of the Inc. community what one question they want the president to address in Tuesday night's State of the Union. Here's what they had to say.

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The Weigh-In: What’s The Best Way To Motivate Your Employees?

Motivation is a hot topic year-round, but particularly in January, the month of fresh starts, checklists, and lofty goals. It's the time of year we try to figure out how to prod our employees to excel, to hit and surpass ambitious targets.

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Are Your Employees Stealing From You?

The average business loses 6 percent of revenue from employee theft. How to make sure it doesn't happen at your company.

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Why Innovation Needs Academia

It's in style to dismiss business school, and higher education in general, as unnecessary. But our company wouldn't exist without it.

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Judge a New Company in 15 Seconds

I ask one question to determine whether a new company has a future. The 15-second answer tells me all I need to know When entrepreneurs ask us to evaluate business ideas, we always respond first with the same question: “What problem will your new venture solve?” Their one-or two-sentence answers---10 or 15 seconds at the most---are often enough to predict the future. Too frequently, entrepreneurs quickly get sidetracked talking about things like the amazing technology they hope to use, the fantastic team members they’ll be working with, or the resources they hope to leverage

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