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Why you don't have to be loud to be a great leader. Think back to your elementary school report cards

Steve Grubbs, 47, started his career in politics, before parlaying his campaign experience into two businesses in the late '90s.

What fast-growing companies need is strategic thinking--not strategic planning. Here are three things smaller companies can do to develop an adaptive, opportunistic approach to strategy.

It's not so mysterious, after all. And neither is your coffee or Coke habit.

Fellow entrepreneurs told me that going out on my own had its benefits, but once I took the leap I discovered even more unique perks that no one had prepared me for.

QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a marshy lake surrounded by Indian settlements--the Quitus on one shore and the Ipias on the other. Between A.D.

The Wired magazine founder offers a brain tickler for entrepreneurs by suggesting they involve customers more intimately in their businesses.

Part of the reason we go on vacation is to feel refreshed when we get back, right? That's why the laptop and iPhone come with me

Entrepreneurs share how they launched their businesses in just 54 hours at Startup Weekend. We've heard it before: You have a great idea, but you just don't have the time to build it into a sustainable company. Startup Weekend proves that notion false

In January, when Netflix was riding high, I wrote that it was going to break my heart . While it offers an amazing service, its competitive advantage disappeared by its switching to online video streaming.

This is the quiet before the storm. I just finished off a plate of chicken marsala in an Italian restaurant, enveloped in the gentle clinking of forks and knives on china, plaid tablecloths, and bottles of olive oil. It all feels so warm and civilized, except for the luggage cars racing past the window and flashing lights of airplanes reminding me I am no longer in New York.

One of the pleasures of Scientific American , I’ve always thought, is that it offers armchair travelers a vicarious expedition to the exciting worlds uncovered through science. I reflected on that fact recently as I sat on the tarmac, my flight 23rd in line for takeoff at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. I was reading over this issue’s articles and again became absorbed by our cover story, “ The First Americans ,” by Heather Pringle.

I’m writing from a restaurant in the Mexico City airport, a plate of spicy fajitas in my belly.

Dustin Johnson had only one thought after winning The Barclays, which he first told his caddie as they left the 18th green and later swing coach Butch Harmon on his way to the airport.

Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.