The Relentlessly Introspective Inc.

Inc. isn’t a public company, but one can reliably expect the inner workings of its financials to be splashed in the media gossip columns on a quarterly basis now that the magazine and its corporate sibling Fast Company have adopted “open book management.” You may have missed the news — it first appeared in Joe Nocera’s Saturday New York Times column, and it’s already behind the “Time Select” wall now — but Inc., now under the ownership of former cover subject Joe Mansueto has chosen once again to practice what it preaches — that opening the kimono to your employees empowers them to do something about your financial status (which in Inc.’s