High achievement isn’t just about what you do, it’s also about what you believe, insists HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Here on Inc.com, we frequently round up things you can do to be more successful. That makes sense — we all want to know what we can do to achieve more, but as Hubspot founder and […]

If you aren’t first, you’re last. Don’t let your company get left behind. No business can afford to blindly follow the crowd. Your company needs to be driving innovation, not sitting in the passenger seat. You need to be ahead of the trends. I recently talked to RED Interactive Agency‘s CEO Brian Lovell and President […]

Sorting through your inbox can be a huge time suck. Here are a few ways you can make the process more efficient. Office workers spend about two hours a day on email. Cal Newport, author of “So Good They Can’t Ignore You,” argues that this is terrible for your career. While sending emails might feel […]

A new book tells women how to boost their self-assurance, but the advice is good for men, too. I just listened to one of the most interesting interviews I’ve ever heard on NPR with Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, authors of “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance–What Women Should Know.” The interview […]

Cellphone companies do the former. Airlines do the latter. Hotels sometimes do both. What’s the best choice for your business? Should you offer your best prices to new customers (to lure them in) or existing ones (to reward their loyalty)? To help executives end this eternal pricing debate, two professors at the Yale School of […]

Investor Chris Heivly offers his take on what the terrain will be like in the New Year by looking back at the way we were. As one of two managing directors of The Startup Factory seed-stage investment program, I get to travel the country speaking on behalf of investors, entrepreneurs and community leaders about the […]

Give your 2014 goals a fighting chance with these mobile apps. Many (if not most) New Year’s resolutions become memories minutes after they’re hatched. But some app makers are hoping to end this vicious cycle. Banking on the fact that smartphone owners keep close proximity to their devices 24 hours a day, mobile-app providers are […]

Leaders rarely have enough time to prepare for the communicating they have to do. Here’s a shortcut. Steve Sargent, president and CEO of GE Australia and New Zealand, runs through a four-point checklist–sometimes in just 30 seconds–before every organized communication event, from small meetings to large speeches. The four questions he asks himself seem obvious, […]