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How I did it: Architect David Rockwell explains how he thinks not only about a building, but also about the way people experience it. David Rockwell believes that all the world is a stage. The 56-year-old architect's love of theater informs every design project ever done by his firm, Rockwell Group, in New York City.

Don't ever become so reliant on one form of marketing that, if it ceased, your business could go the way of the dodo. What would happen if your principal manner of marketing your product were to vanish overnight? Could your business adapt?

Don't ever become so reliant on one form of marketing that, if it ceased, your business could go the way of the dodo. What would happen if your principal manner of marketing your product were to vanish overnight

Don't ever become so reliant on one form of marketing that, if it ceased, your business could go the way of the dodo. What would happen if your principal manner of marketing your product were to vanish overnight? Could your business adapt?

Take the time to discover which customers add the most value to your business. The CEO of one of our clients , a public company that provides credit card processing services to merchants, had a problem: The company had consistently delivered revenue growth rates better than most of its competitors, but its price-earnings multiple was lower than those companies.

Brian Malarkey's restaurant ventures are backed by massive investment. But can his social-dining experiment thrive

Can you set out to fail? Yes, in fact, you can -- if you do one of the following things. Fellow Inc.com columnist Paul Schoemaker recently wrote about how mistakes can be the secret to success

The seafood chain's newest ads are making some people uncomfortable, but they might be the most compelling argument for ocean conservation. Don't save the fish so they can live long, happy lives.

A few years ago the renowned chef Ferran Adri

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Taking a rare peek into what really goes into creating the fresh, local ingredients your waiter rattles off when explaining that day's specials. This summer Dan Kluger, chef at ABC Kitchen (this year's James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best New Restaurant), accompanied several food writers on a road trip to New York's Hudson Valley to tour some of the farms (and one distillery!) that supply Manhattan's hottest restaurants, including his own.

Long before the first customer walks into a restaurant, the most important meal of the day, arguably, has already been prepared: The Family Meal.

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In this charming music video from Chipotle, Willie sings about going "back to the start" of American farming, before animals were pumped with antibiotics and kept in factories. A farmer, not content with his small family farm, starts to modernize. He turns his farm into a factory, pumping drugs into his pigs and pollutants into the water

It may seem like I've been harping on service lately, since my last post was about tipping inattentive waitstaff .