I’ve noticed there’s a belief that women often carry quietly: I’ll do it when I feel more confident. And it sounds perfectly reasonable on the surface. I’ve heard things along the lines of: “I’m sort of starting a business. I’ll do it when I’ve done enough preparation, or when things aren’t so busy.” We’ve all said some version of this. I know I have. Inherited expectations Over 25 years of working with women founders, leaders, and high achievers, I’ve seen that one thing holding them back is the confidence myth. Most women I know aren’t simply lacking self-belief. They are…
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Our lives are littered with devices we don’t understand. We don’t know why the microwave suddenly beeps just past midnight, or why the dishwasher won’t run unless it’s been unplugged and then replugged three times, or why the laptop charges only when we push in the cord at that weird angle. Sometimes it seems like these questions are simply impossible to answer, preternatural quirks that can be fixed solely by calling a professional. Or these days, by opening up the ChatGPT app. Consumer AI tools are enabling more and more people to conduct their own device evaluations and repairs. The…
Although most people see themselves as open-minded, we all tend to judge others before we truly get to know them. Prejudging people before we even properly interact with them is the norm, and the origin of the term prejudice. And yet, we can also learn to give people the benefit of the doubt and coach ourselves to suspend rapid and stereotypical evaluations of others when we want—it’s just that it requires far more effort (thinking slow rather than fast) and . . . is by no means guaranteed to work out in the end. So, while we all agree (at…
COMMENT: As I’ve just retired, I wanted to tell you that you were framed intentionally because you cost them more than $15 billion+ in losses. You are correct — they blamed you for having too much influence, and they played the NY authorities for fools. They claimed $1 billion was missing and that they didn’t know where it was, without ever explaining how anyone could get $1 billion out of a bank with no trace. The mainstream press still stays clear of you, yet you are widely followed and deeply respected. The FT here just confirmed what you had forecast,…
Many of us have attended meetings where the leader lays out expectations and, at the close, asks, “Is everyone good?” People typically look around to see how everyone wants to answer, and nod in response to the leader’s question. But is everything really OK? The leader may feel like they have two choices. They can believe the team members or not. The problem is that neither response is automatically right. Sometimes things are just as the team says: Everything is great. But other times they aren’t, and team members may be hiding how they feel. The challenge isn’t finding the…
Something very strange is happening around the United Kingdom, and the political establishment would be foolish to dismiss it. President Donald Trump has now openly endorsed the reunification of Ireland, describing it as one of the “naturals” of all time and saying he would “love” to see it happen. Then he was asked about Scottish independence and suddenly became much more careful, replying, “That one I won’t talk about yet.” Yet? That is an interesting word because Trump did not reject the possibility. He simply declined to discuss it NOW, precisely as separatist pressure is again rising across the United…
Key Takeaways A new working paper found that workers who attend more meetings may also experience stronger wage growth and career momentum. Among the work activities studied, time spent in meetings was the strongest predictor of wage growth. The findings show correlation, not causation: Attending extra meetings will not automatically earn someone a raise. Have a packed calendar full of meetings? A new working paper suggests that the employees spending the most time in meetings could also be the ones seeing the biggest pay gains. Researchers at Harvard University and the Norwegian School of Economics published a new working paper…
Something is happening in Germany that the political establishment can no longer dismiss as a temporary protest. The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) secured 43.8% of the vote in the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result and finishing far ahead of the CDU. Whether anyone likes the AfD or hates it is beside the point. When nearly half the electorate in a German state votes for a party that the establishment has spent years portraying as beyond the acceptable boundaries of politics, the intelligent question is not what is wrong with the voters. The question is…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Alistair Darby believes lasting hospitality businesses must make decisions based on what they are building for future generations. Darby learned that businesses sometimes need to accept short-term costs to establish the reputation they want. Darby credits some of his greatest career growth to accepting difficult roles instead of choosing the safest promotion. A hotel designed to stand for 100 years cannot be built around the concerns of the next quarter. For Alistair Darby, CEO of Sir Richard Sutton Limited, that distinction has changed how he thinks about growth. “How can…
I wrote on September 9, 2014, just days before Scotland’s independence referendum, that we had been taking the prospect of Scottish separation seriously since the Berlin Conference in 2012. At that conference, I showed the chart illustrating the rise of separatist movements throughout Europe as part of our Cycle of War model. By 2014, when the polls suddenly showed Scotland could actually vote YES and break apart a union dating back to 1707, the political establishment was shocked. I wrote then that “such trends are driven by economics” and that what we were witnessing was the rise in civil unrest…