Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways What most leaders call agility is actually noise: constant motion and urgency without repeatable results, which is churn rather than speed. Real speed comes from unglamorous fundamentals — clear decision ownership, defined ways of working and tight coordination — because organizations move fastest when people spend less time recalibrating and more time executing. Most leaders who say they want speed are actually building the opposite. They remove structure, push decision-making down and celebrate autonomy. It feels fast. It looks modern. It signals trust. It also creates confusion, rework and slower…
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I have written about this trend for years and was attacked whenever I pointed out that the Democratic Party was gradually abandoning its traditional economic foundation and moving openly toward socialism. They no longer have to hide it. The voters themselves are now saying it. A new CBS News/YouGov poll found that 58% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism while only 32% have a positive view of capitalism. Among college-educated Democrats, support for socialism rises to an astonishing 71%. This is no longer Bernie Sanders standing on the fringe screaming about millionaires and billionaires. Socialism has become more…
Key Takeaways Lila Ibrahim is Google DeepMind’s first chief AI readiness officer. Her career began in an Indiana cornfield, not an AI lab. She entered DeepMind without formal AI training but managed to earn a C-suite AI role. Lila Ibrahim’s route to the top of Google DeepMind started at the age of 14, when she spent summers detasseling corn in Indiana for “$1-something” an hour. It was a grueling job that left her sweating, scraped up and certain that she wanted another kind of life. “I grew up in really humble beginnings,” Ibrahim recently told Fortune. Her immigrant parents were…
Trump has ordered the Pentagon to reduce America’s joint military exercises with South Korea, but this is not simply about saving money or suddenly deciding that North Korea poses no threat. Trump said that North Korea has been “unthreatening and respectful” toward the United States and argued that the exercises with South Korea are unnecessary and provocative given his relationship with Kim Jong Un. He instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, which began August 17 and were scheduled to involve approximately 18,000 South Korean troops. Trump has opposed these exercises before and suspended major drills…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If your business can’t exist without you, you don’t have a business — you have a personality with a payroll. Real businesses build in repeatability. They develop a culture that holds regardless of any one person’s mood or bandwidth on a particular day. They build a genuinely recognizable brand. Sit through enough award stages at real estate conferences, and the script starts to repeat itself. Three hundred deals closed last year. Twenty-five agents on the roster. Two hundred million in volume. Everyone claps, a few people scribble the number down,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Baby Boomers value trust, consistency and direct mail marketing. You should focus on traditional outreach and email follow-up. Generation X values straightforward messaging, value and proof (reviews, testimonials, case studies and before-and-after examples). Millennials value convenience, personalized mail and entertaining marketing. Use search, social media and location-based ads, and stay connected with personalized email, retargeting ads and direct mail retargeting. Gen Z values authenticity, creativity, speed, social proof and unique mail. They respond well when you feel real, unique and worth their attention. At PostcardMania, my marketing consultants work with…
Key Takeaways NFL great Kyle Van Noy’s show “Elite Eatz” features conversations with amazing athletes about life on and off the field. This week, Kyle takes Los Angeles Chargers safety Tony Jefferson down to Manhattan Beach for a Mexican food summit to remember. Hungry for some inside the NFL talk? Then check out “Elite Eatz,” Kyle Van Noy‘s YouTube series where the two-time Super Bowl champion linebacker sits down with fellow football greats over a meal and digs in on food, as well as the physical grind and mental toughness it takes to succeed. In this episode, Van Noy heads to…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every entrepreneur hopes that a great product or service can stand on its own; that it can be successful enough to help them grow their business and personal profile. Unfortunately, such successes tend to be the exception rather than the rule. As Tyler Wagner, founder of Authors Unite, explains, entrepreneurs typically need much more than a great product to achieve long-term results. They need a platform. And by delivering value through personal, authoritative content, they can achieve exactly that. The Danger of Product-Only Thinking While the product or service is usually the…
Key Takeaways Britt Riley, founder and CEO of childcare company Haven, has created a network of clubs that offer daycare, workspace and fitness for families. She mandates that her employees take two weeks of vacation per year, one week in the summer and one week at the end of the year. Riley shuts down her business for those two weeks, creating no opportunity for her employees to work or feel like they are missing out. Britt Riley, founder and CEO of childcare company Haven, designed her company with rest in mind. She has spent the past seven years creating a…
Todd Penegor says inconsistency is hurting the brand. His fix includes new field teams and $5 million in incentives for franchisees. By Jon Small | edited by Dan Bova | Aug 17, 2026 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Papa Johns has a consistency problem, and its CEO isn’t hiding from it. On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Todd Penegor said inconsistency across its restaurants is the chain’s “Achilles heel,” and that it’s hurting brand perception nationwide, according to Restaurant Business. Right now, the best-performing Papa Johns locations are outselling the worst ones by a wide margin. To…