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European leaders are meeting today on yet another Grand Plan to bail out the Euro. Why you, and your business, better hope they succeed. The drama is building over European leaders’ continued inability to solve the debt crisis that threatens to explode the euro zone.

Chris Christensen's $4 million company is growing fast in a business without rivals: Creating and selling high-end products for dog shows.

Entrepreneurship, for all its challenges, can bestow on families unexpected benefits beyond the obvious financial ones. Although my husband, Gary, is CEO of Stonyfield Farm, his name doesn't appear in the company's phone directory. So after-hours calls often land in the voice-mail box of the only Hirshberg listed: his sister Nancy, who has worked at the company for decades.

Business schools and most jobs don’t teach you how important it is to sweat the small stuff.

How do innovators and early adopters succeed in spreading new ideas, new tech, and even new seed corn? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The Tipping Point (2000) by Malcolm Gladwell.

One business owner's strategy for embracing her role as the boss. This is a guest blog post from Vanessa Merit Nornberg, President of Metal Mafia , and a member of the Inc

The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet knows the importance of collaboration, performance, and productivity. Here we summarize key management tenets from his teachings--and tweets. In September, the Dalai Lama, the 76-year-old exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, released a statement that addressed questions over his "reincarnation"—or succession—plans, and laid out a long-term “strategy” for his holy enterprise.

As tech-sector regulations pile on for start-ups, here's how to keep innovating while weathering the legal storm. Is your company a scofflaw? Are you sure

Here are the steps to take to prevent yourself from getting burned by your clients.

The Trademark Company CEO Matthew Swyers went from being a legal mercenary to a warrior defending the trademarks of small businesses. There’s a scene in the movie Pretty Woman where the corporate raider played by Richard Gere, Edward Lewis, has an epiphany about his life. He quips, to the effect, we never build anything anymore.

Are you trying to play Santa on an elf's cashflow? Make your client gifts stand out this holiday season, regardless of budget

In short: No one cares about your story the way you're telling it. Try one of these tactics instead. Every business has a story , but most of those stories are boring.

Your customers that is. If you're spending tons of money on attracting new customers, you're making a mistake. If you’ve ever tried to explain the concept of "make new friends but keep your old ones" to a five-year-old, you have a pretty good perspective on how many high-growth businesses approach customer acquisition and retention.

Economists call it a "binary" outlook: The future will be either pretty good or a nightmare, with not much in between. Here's how you plan at such times. My firm and I have served business owners for over 25 years, but the questions I get now are some of the toughest I’ve ever faced.

By the time you're finished, you'll have them pitching you your own idea. One of our clients is considering a major strategic investment that could help the company become a major player in an adjacent product market