“I know you can’t tell me what to do.” I hear some version of that sentence almost every week from coaching clients wrestling with career decisions. Should they accept the promotion? Leave a leadership role? Start a company? Stay where they are? By the time we meet, they’ve usually done everything they know how to do. They’ve made pro-and-con lists, sought advice from trusted colleagues, and analyzed every possible outcome. Yet they still feel stuck. That’s because the hardest leadership decisions are rarely information problems. They’re values conflicts. {“blockType”:”mv-promo-block”,”data”:{“imageDesktopUrl”:”https://images.fastcompany.com/image/upload/f_webp,q_auto,c_fit/wp-cms-2/2025/11/cupofambition.png”,”imageMobileUrl”:”https://images.fastcompany.com/image/upload/f_webp,q_auto,c_fit/wp-cms-2/2025/11/cupofambition-mobile.png”,”eyebrow”:””,”headline”:”u003Cstrongu003ESubscribe to A Cup of Ambitionu003C/strongu003E”,”dek”:”A biweekly newsletter for high-achieving moms who…
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Shares in GoPro Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRO) jumped yesterday and are again up significantly in premarket trading today after it was revealed that the megastar YouTuber Markiplier has become the largest individual shareholder in the struggling action camera maker. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported that Mark Fischbach, better known as Markiplier, a YouTuber, acquired an 8.5% stake in GoPro. This stake makes Markiplier the single largest individual shareholder in the company. After news of Markiplier’s stake was announced over the weekend, GoPro shares surged on Monday, ending the trading day up over 46%…
Before this summer, the WNBA player Sophie Cunningham was probably most famous for her decision, in the waning seconds of a 2025 game, to more or less tackle an opponent who had poked the eye of her Indiana Fever teammate Caitlin Clark. In the weeks that followed, Cunningham signed a bunch of endorsement deals and picked up more than a million new TikTok followers. She earned a second wave of social media-driven attention this season, when her exaggerated, taunting finger-point at another opponent went sufficiently viral to earn the attention of, among others, the former NFL quarterback Tom Brady and…
Manchester City’s new uniforms are the first professional kits designed by fans using AI that will be worn on a football pitch. The Premier League team announced a new fan-designed alternative kit that was made using Puma AI Creator, the German sportswear brand’s custom generative AI tool. Puma launched the AI generator in December 2024. It’s powered by Deepobjects, an AI co-creation platform, and it works through text prompts, sliders, and customization tools for elements like collar, colors, and badge placements. Last year, players Ederson, Stefan Ortega, and Rico Lewis made an AI-generated goalie kit that’s green with a goal…
Over the course of a long career, I’ve made my share of mistakes, but the dumbest and most damaging ones have always been driven by urgency. Whenever I convinced myself that an opportunity was so great I had to “strike while the iron is hot,” boneheaded decisions inevitably followed, usually ending in some crushing failure. Of course, nobody ever tells you that because “creating a sense of urgency” is supposed to be a good thing. It leads to action, and action feels good. Deliberation, on the other hand, can feel frustrating and, let’s face it, boring. If you can create…
A regular pattern that I have observed with my senior-level executive coaching clients is that they seem to be doing great but in reality are struggling. On the surface, they look successful: excellent results, composure under pressure, and abundant confidence in all the right settings. They wear the mask of executive presence. But underneath, they’re exhausted, and no one close to them notices or feels able to speak up. This was brought home to me in a comment on one of my recent LinkedIn posts about the importance of human connection at work: “The person who just won Leader of…
Congratulations to the people of Iceland. They were given the opportunity to voluntarily surrender more of their sovereignty to Brussels, and 52.8% said NO. Only 47.2% supported reopening negotiations to join the European Union, despite the government pushing the issue and despite polls only days earlier suggesting the pro-EU side could prevail. Turnout reached an extraordinary 82.5%, the highest turnout in an Icelandic referendum since the vote establishing the republic. This was not voter apathy. Icelanders showed up and made their position known. The referendum was technically only about reopening accession negotiations, not immediately joining the EU. Had the “Yes”…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways In the current AI era, leaders are continuously redesigning their workforce, with roles always in motion rather than “set” for the next planning cycle. Most companies still see people as headcount and cost centers, not as a dynamic portfolio of skills, capacity and teams The only way to use AI responsibly is to get a single, living view of who does what today, how work is shifting, and where humans versus machines add the most value. I’ve seen the way we work turned on its head before. Way back in…
India has once again demonstrated that its economic rise is not some distant projection for 2030 or 2040. The economy expanded 7.8% during the first quarter of fiscal 2027, exceeding both market expectations and the Reserve Bank of India’s own forecast. This is occurring while Europe struggles with stagnation, Japan confronts its sovereign debt nightmare, Canada is deteriorating, and geopolitical tensions continue disrupting global trade. India is moving in precisely the opposite direction. I wrote earlier this year that Indians are actually feeling their economy grow in real time. That distinction is extremely important. Governments can manipulate statistics and economists…
Key Takeaways Ndamukong Suh was just a college student when he met Warren Buffett for the first time. After asking for a meeting, Suh arrived at Buffett’s office hours ahead of schedule. Over the past 17 years, Buffett has taught Suh some valuable lessons, such as learning to have patience and forming relationships with quality people. Ndamukong Suh’s relationship with Warren Buffett began in 2009, well before Suh became one of the NFL’s most recognizable defensive players. At the time, Suh was still playing football at the University of Nebraska. He was beginning to take a serious interest in business…