To become an agile, innovative, Entrepreneurial Organization, employee engagement is essential. Business leaders are frustrated with email and groupware because it doesn't break through the bureaucracy - usually it creates more. In addition to project collaboration, blogging, social networking, community building, and knowledge management, OpenTeams is an innovative initiative development solution where employees collaboratively seed and mature new ideas for additional revenue, productivity, and cost-savings.

This guide starts with a very simple premise: Because entrepreneurs take so much risk in their careers, they should invest their savings carefully and conservatively. A personal finance expert, Lewis Schiff offers advice on everything from how to invest your money to how to prepare for succession.

Over the years Inc. magazine has profiled entrepreneurs who have changed business, made a difference, or otherwise found success in their own way. Below is a list of some of the most powerful material the magazine has published.

Traditional philanthropy invests in a limited circle of people, whereas the X PRIZE, says its founder Peter Diamandis, funds a broader landscape of people and ideas that succeed. Diamandis is encouraging large foundations like the Carnegies and the Fords to consider adding cash incentive prizes into their portfolio of philanthropy, as he believes the rewards from this new form of public enrichment and exploration are much richer.

In contrast to simply donating dollars for public relations benefit, in-house altruism today means ubiquitous dedication to real causes. Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director for Google.org, points out that effective business-backed giving means global outreach, partnerships with experts at the heart of solving problems, and a dedicated percentage of gross income to keep these projects afloat.

Jeff Hawkins, one of the founders of Handspring, claims to have witnessed teams of entrepreneurs brainstorming a product just for the sake of the sale, and he criticizes this approach. A good product can only be conjured by a genuine need in the marketplace. If there are no holes to fill, says Hawkins, then there is no point to being an entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur is more than just starting a business, says Shutterfly CEO and dot-com veteran Jeff Housenbold. Entrepreneurial thinking involves an innovative mindset to create new products, new markets, and new ideas within any set of circumstances - from an existing Fortune 500 to a mom-and-pop shop.

Somewhere en route from dirt-poor Mississippi schoolgirl to TV news anchor to talk-show empress to award-winning actress to therapist for an anxious nation, Oprah Winfrey became a businesswoman. It's a title she doesn't like much. "I don't think of myself as a businesswoman," she announces at the beginning of a four-hour sit-down--the first extensive interview she's given to a business publication. "The only time I think about being a businesswoman is now, while I'm talking to you. There's this part of me that's afraid of what will happen if I believe it all."

Bill Gates Speech Archive - 2008

When Brian Johnson founded Zaadz, a social networking site for people who want to change the world, it was an outgrowth of his dual nature as a philosopher and an entrepreneur.