Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways We see students cram every achievement into their Personal Statements, practically begging to be admitted. Entrepreneurs do the same when they defend their fees, compare themselves to competitors or rattle off credentials. But the harder you sell, the less appealing you become. The secret isn’t saying more; it’s knowing when to stop talking, trusting your track record and letting your story speak for itself. Sometimes, the most persuasive sales pitch is no pitch at all. Every year at Ivy Coach, our college admissions counseling firm, we encounter a subset of…
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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 1,110.73 points or -1.79% to 61,077.90 • Shanghai increased 3.738 points or 0.10% to 3,689.911 • Hang Seng increased 877.48 points or 3.67% to 24,796.98 • ASX 200 increased 230.60 points or 2.61% to 9,065.10 • SENSEX increased 2,008.61 points or 2.60% to 79,310.01 • Nifty50 increased 576.00 points or 2.40% to 24,536.60 The major Asian currency markets had a negative day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00461 or -0.66% to 0.69592 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00076 or -0.14% to 0.56154 • USDJPY decreased 0.647 or -0.41%…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Flattening removes layers, not leadership work. Before removing a management layer, you need to have an understanding of what the people in that layer do and who will take those tasks in their absence. Without clear authority, realistic workloads and adequate support, remaining managers risk becoming overwhelmed, leading to lower effectiveness and higher turnover. With fewer layers, companies must create growth opportunities deliberately — through observation and modeling, practice before full accountability, building judgment, coaching, people leadership and progressively broader assignments. If you’ve ever waited days for approval on something…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Feeling stuck in a situation? Trying to resolve a difficult challenge? Here’s a strange solution, but I promise it works: Just pretend that you’re in a sitcom. Framing your situation as a sitcom allows you to view yourself as the protagonist of your own story. It encourages you to channel the confidence and self-assuredness of iconic movie characters like Ferris Bueller or Elle Woods. This perspective also infuses appreciation into almost any circumstance by transforming the dull, bland backdrop of your daily life into a well-thought-out set with interesting characters and details…
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here. And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com, and follow me on X @thesullivan. There were 41 ballot initiatives limiting data centers; all but one are on track to pass Voters in 10 states weighed in Tuesday on 41 local ballot measures…
Japanese video-game maker Nintendo reported Thursday an 11% improvement in its net profit in the first half of the fiscal year, although its sales declined during that period.Kyoto-based Nintendo Co.’s April-September profit rose to 220.9 billion yen ($1.4 billion) from nearly 199 billion yen in the same period a year earlier. Sales during the six months slipped 12% to 966 billion yen.Nintendo, which makes Pokemon, Super Mario and Legend of Zelda games, sold 1.27 million Switch game consoles during the six months, and 6.49 million of its Switch 2 machines, the company said.In game software, “Star Fox” and “Splatoon Raiders,”…
President Donald Trump was publicly humbled by inflation in the midterm elections, as rising prices provoked a blistering set of losses for Republicans in House, Senate and gubernatorial races.Most voters said that Trump’s own policies had smothered growth and driven costs even higher, according to The AP Voter Poll, a survey of roughly 100,000 midterm voters. The president’s message that the fault lay with his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, didn’t land. Americans saw prices start to climb with Trump’s chaotic rash of tariffs last year, and energy costs spiked after he launched a war with Iran in February.About two-thirds of…
As he takes stock of his Republican Party’s midterm drubbing, President Donald Trump now faces the difficult question of what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran.For weeks, Trump has threatened to return to a full-scale bombardment of Iran once the U.S. elections were in the rearview mirror if Tehran did not come to a settlement under terms acceptable to him.In his first comments on Wednesday after Democrats’ resounding election victory — a wave powered in part by the American electorate’s dissatisfaction with the war — Trump largely agreed with Vice President JD Vance, who publicly ruminated on…
Reading about the world economy every day is one thing. Understanding how the pieces fit together is what allows you to ask better questions about your investments, your business, and your future. Where is capital moving? What happens when confidence in government debt begins to weaken? How do political upheaval and war change the outlook for markets thousands of miles away? Join Martin Armstrong at the 2026 World Economic Conference in Orlando, Florida, December 4–6. This year’s conference will examine sovereign debt, the potential for a bond crisis, geopolitical conflict, political instability, and why interest rates can rise for reasons…
Why would Apple launch a concert venue? This is the question I’ve been asking myself since it inaugurated its Apple Music Hall, nestled underneath its U.K. headquarters at London’s Battersea Power Station, in late September. Not just any performance space, this intimate 600-person, 48-speaker hall features Apple’s Spatial Audio technology, which uses Dolby Atmos and dynamic head tracking to turn flat stereo sound into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. To my eye, the Music Hall is not just another listening room. It’s the start of an elaborate world-building exercise for Apple Music, designed to engage a community of hardcore fans. In…