Technology

Leadership Tips: Vol. 1213

December 23, 2013
Don’t worry about timing … Learn more about startups from the real experts … Use technology to knock out that to-do list.

Target’s ‘wiki’ culture starts with CEO

December 19, 2013

To create a more collaborative culture, CEO Gregg Steinhafel encourages Target’s 365,000 employees to harness social media. The retail giant has developed an internal online platform that enables workers at all levels to post comments, share ideas and engage in Facebook-like interaction with each other.

Where no one has gone before

November 8, 2013
High school junior Jack Andraka was not satisfied at winning $100,000 in last year’s Intel science fair for developing a paper strip that might become the world’s best test for pancreatic cancer. With friends he’d made at the fair, the 16-year-old has set off on a new quest: the $10 million Tricorder X-Prize.

Reddy to go mobile

October 28, 2013
As director of online operations for Facebook India, Kirthiga Reddy is all mobile all the time.

Leadership Tips: Vol. 713

July 9, 2013
Learn to take those first steps toward leadership alone … Take Derek Jeter’s advice on being bold … Provide nuance where it’s becoming desperately needed.

Leading and texting

June 28, 2013
A smattering of Inc.’s rules for business texting.

Communication: ‘Call me maybe’

June 14, 2013
Employees at SceneTap range in age from 18 to 55, millennials to boomers. The younger set likes social media and is tethered by smartphone. Thirty-somethings prefer email, instant messaging and videoconferencing. Boomers go for phone calls and walking around. To accommodate each communication style, the phone application company tracks who likes what.

Get your leadership tools digitized

February 22, 2013

You’ve heard about the new generation of “digital natives”—young people born after 1989 who know only a digital world. For the rest of us, the lesson is clear: We need to become digital leaders.

Nuts, seeds and twigs of Twitter

February 5, 2013

You’ve been following people and news on Twitter, but you don’t really get it. How do you tweet directly to someone without blasting all your followers? What do hashtags mean? There’s a glossary right on Twitter. We’ve picked the most useful terms.

‘Do I need to be on Twitter?’

March 17, 2011

That’s the question Steve Cunningham hears often, as the head of a digital mar­­keting agency. His reply? The true power of social media is in doing things that are worth talking about. He mentions two companies known for creating buzz in social-media circles: Zappos and Apple.