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ENOUGH WITH ALL THE RESIGNATION

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ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?

IT’S ABOUT TIME YOU GOT ON TIKTOK

PUSH YOUR PEOPLE TO DREAM BIGGER

HOW POO-POURRI ALMOST STEPPED IN IT

GOOD INTENTIONS ONLY GO SO FAR

CASH FLOW IS QUEEN

WHAT’S COMING DOWN THE RUNWAY IN FADS, FASHION, AND FIRMWARE

Inc. YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS • The Essential Summer High School Program for the World’s Next Business Leaders.

Save Yourself-Then Save the Company • After a devastating customer experience, I regrouped and analyzed everything about my business-and then took my company back.

Give Your Team a Better Option • Stock options are a great retention tool-but why should employees have to bear your risk? There’s a solution for that.

Be Yourself. Inspire Others • Today’s political minefields are so explosive that a step in any direction can seem perilous. But nobody ever inspired a following by standing in place.

8 Ways SMBs Can Win in a Tight Talent Market • The Great Resignation has made competition for the best employees more intense than ever

Business Regrets? They’ve Had a Few • There are many reasons why companies go thumbs-down on good ideas. Some of those reasons seem reasonable: The idea doesn’t align with the current mission, or it requires too much capital or manpower or too much of management’s focus. Then there are the cases when the big bosses were perhaps not paying enough attention. Consider Thomas Edison, who briefly employed in his lab a fellow named Nikola Tesla. Tesla had come up with an induction motor for alternating current and suggested to Edison that it was a better source of electricity than Edison’s own direct-current dynamos. “Spare me that nonsense, ” Edison is said to have told the underling, in one of the most luminous miscalculations in business history. Let’s revel in a few more.

She’s Outgrown the Garage and Is Ready for the Next Step. He Has the Experience to Guide Her • Boxed co-founder Chieh Huang helps Bearaby founder Kathrin Hamm navigate the thorny issues that arise when managing a rapidly growing business.

INC.BEST WORKPLACES 2022 • The Companies Making Work Work

THIS FOUNDER THANKS EMPLOYEES WITH CASH • Monetary rewards are just one tool for fostering a culture of gratitude at digital marketing agency Seer Interactive.

THE BENEFIT OF EMPOWERING EVERYONE TO CALL FOUL ON MEETING DIGRESSIONS

THE BENEFIT OF ELIMINATING TIME SHEETS TO HUMANIZE EMPLOYEES

THESE COFOUNDERS NURTURE AN IDEAL WORK-PLACE FOR AMBITIOUS PARENTS • Organic baby formula startup Bobbie boasts a fully remote culture that overdelivers on flexibility and growth.

THE BENEFIT OF SILENCING INTERNAL INTERRUPTIONS ON FRIDAYS

Inc.Best Workplaces

6 Buzzy Benefits • Looking to support your employees by offering more than just the run-of-the-mill benefits? Here are six creative perks that will show your workers you’ve got their backs.

THE BENEFIT OF FUNDINGGLOBALLY DISTRIBUTEDEMPLOYEES TO MEET UP IRL

THIS FORMER BANKER GIVES NEW EMPLOYEES TWO WEEKS OFF BEFORE THEY START • Hospitality tech startup SevenRooms has a program to inoculate against burnout.

MARK CUBAN’S PRESCRIPTION FOR BIG PHARMA • Drug companies face a whole other kind of trial, thanks to a dose of this entrepreneurial legend.

How to Get Mark Cuban’s Attention • Or the attention of other mega investors and mentors

Through the Looking Glass • Glen Tullman envisions an upside-down world-one where health care isn’t broken and...