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LESSONS AND LEADERSHIP

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HIRE YOUR CUSTOMERS

THE RIGHT WAY IS RARELY EASY

WHEN TO MARRY YOUR ENEMIES

I WASN’T OPEN TO CRITICISM

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE • After founding Happy Family Organics in 2003, Shazi Visram grew it into the largest organic baby food company in the U.S. Since selling to Danone in 2013, Visram has built an investment portfolio that empowers sustainability-focused companies innovating in fields like recycling, sustainable farming, and environmental conservation. Visram sat down with Inc. to talk about how entrepreneurs can go green to make green.

HOW TO GET INTEL WITHOUT COOKIES

HOW TO MAKE THE ALOHA SPIRIT A SALES STRATEGY

KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF YOUR BRAND • For a growing young business, hiring a branding and marketing consultant seems like a perfectly logical thing to do. So it seemed to me—several times. But now that I’ve had a role in this movie, I can tell you that it never ends well.

ENEMIES: CLOSER THAN YOU THINK • Even companies that make all the right moves can succumb to an all-too-common culprit: employee theft.

Payroll Services Level the Playing Field for SMBs Competing for Top Talent • In a seller’s market for the best employees, small and midsize businesses can rely on payroll services partners for technology and support to provide an exceptional employee experience

WOMEN, INCORPORATED • For most of the 20th century, it was hard for women to so much as see the glass ceiling—because they couldn’t even get in the door. Here, five ground-breaking, ceiling-smashing women who engineered marketing, sales, distribution, and launch techniques that changed business as we knew it.

FIRST YOU GROW THEN YOU MAKE IT STICK • SURVIVING A CRISIS IS HARD ENOUGH. BUT CAN YOU ACTUALLY THRIVE THROUGH ONE? SQUARE CO-FOUNDER JIM MCKELVEY AND MYDIGITALOFFICE FOUNDER ALI MOLOO SHARE STRATEGIES FOR DOING JUST THAT-LIKE GIVING IT AWAY FOR FREE.

GARYVEE WANTS TO MAKE YOU RICH… AGAIN • How the brash pioneer of social media-optimized self-promotion and brand-building is reinventing himself to sell NFTs and empathy. No cursing this time around—well, almost none. Is he actually onto something?

GARYVEE’S GUIDE TO INVENTING THE FUTURE WITH NFTs

MEET INC.’S 250 BEST-LED U.S. COMPANIES • Great companies are run by great teams-so who better to solicit for leadership advice? Behold their 52 tips, tricks, and strategies to make you a stronger mentor, visionary, and boss.

Best-Led: The List

“GOTTA CATCH ’EM ALL” • IN A MIDTOWN OFFICE ABIDES THE MAN WHO BROUGHT GENERATIONS OF GAMES TO AMERICA’S LIVING ROOMS. HE RAISED POKÉMON AND YU-GI-OH! HE BIRTHED CABBAGE PATCH KIDS. HE FOUNDED A COMPANY—MADE AND LOST FORTUNES. THIS IS THE TALE OF AL KAHN—THE GREATEST TOY MAN YOU’VE NEVER KNOWN.

EVIDENCE OF ABSURD POPULARITY

HOSTAGE SITUATION • Ransomware attackers are coming for you. And if they can get to your data, they can destroy your business. Don’t become a victim.

The Barefoot CEO • For as long as tech startups have been making titans out of tech bros, the rest of us have had to bear witness to their bare feet. Why is that?

CAPITAL IDEA$

A Change of Domain • How Donuts Inc. is shifting the way businesses use domain names to create their online identity

Powering Unprecedented Insights for Health Care and Beyond • Deep subject matter expertise, the right team and technology, and strong client partnerships help Analytical Wizards serve the world’s biggest pharmaceutical...