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Strategy seems to have fallen on hard times. In his recent Fast Company piece “ Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch ,” author Shawn Parr joins a long list of commentators, psychologists, authors, and consultants who’ve used that dietary line to argue that company culture is a greater determinant of success than competitive strategy

Indigo Johnson founded Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week Careers In Transition to help organizations get the most out of their workers. As applications for the 2012 Inc

What does a pet product start-up have in common with a Girl Scout selling cookies? They can both teach you about mobile payments.

The economic climate abroad has potentially severe ramifications to U.S. business travel as owners lose interest in European business opportunities

Starting a business can be hazardous to your health--who has time to think about staying fit?

Steal this idea: At method, we have a special--and easy to replicate--way of keeping corporate culture humming even as the company grows.

Yelp, the user-generated review site based in San Francisco, priced shares of its IPO between $12 and $14, and seeks to raise nearly $100 million in its upcoming IPO. On the heels of Facebook's much-buzzed-about S-1 , Yelp, another Bay Area tech company, is one step closer to going public

When a marketing initiative fell through, my husband and I were left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in inventory. Here's how we turned things around.

Bessemer Venture Partners picked up a piece of everyone's favorite pinboard site back when it was barely making a blip on the Silicon Valley radar. Jeremy Levine tells us why he decided it was a good bet

Picture the scene: It's 2004, and Brian Chesky , the future cofounder and CEO of Airbnb , runs up on stage in full cap and gown to the pulsating bass line of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Chesky's set to give the student commencement address at Rhode Island School of Design--but before reaching the mic, Chesky rips off his black robes, revealing a white tuxedo underneath, and starts dancing to the beat: moonwalking, crotch-grabbing, robotting.... Fast-forward a mere eight years, and rhythmically dubious Chesky's the chief executive of a company now valued at $1.3 billion . (His comical graduation speech is pretty much the opposite of Steve Jobs's Stanford address .) On second thought, don't imagine that dance number from yesteryear

Fear is the main obstacle to success in business--in business as well as elsewhere. Don't let it rule your life. Most people aren't as successful as they might be, simply because their fear is keeping them from taking action.

If you're not devoting a small percentage of your time to working for free, you're making a big mistake.

How do you know if your company will fail? While no one has a crystal ball, there are traps that snare entrepreneurs again and again

Over much of the last decade or two, the subject of work-life balance has been a hot topic in the business world.

You've built your company from the ground up, but now are being pushed out. Step One: Get a lawyer. Then what