Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Change is what happens externally. Transition points to how you feel about an upcoming change. It’s defining your relationship to the change that has or is about to happen. The leadership goal when implementing change is to move an organization forward, but that can’t happen while teams are still in transition. It can be hard to wait and let people adapt, but it is a necessary step towards the neutral zone — or the place where there’s no longer any intense pushback or resentment. Guiding teams through the neutral zone…
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Germany has spent more than a decade lecturing everyone about the supposed moral virtue of opening the borders, and now the numbers coming out of its own prisons are becoming impossible to conceal. According to figures obtained from all 16 German state justice ministries, roughly 27,000 of the 60,408 people held in prisons or pretrial detention in March 2026 were foreign nationals. That is 44.8% of the entire prison population, compared with roughly 30% in 2015. Foreign nationals represent less than 17% of Germany’s overall population, yet they account for nearly half of those behind bars. Think about what that…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Founders point AI at the tasks they’re already doing and ask if it can make them faster or cheaper. But if you’ve shelved a project because the cost or time never added up, that’s the more interesting question AI just reopened. Before you point AI at your next task list, consider which of the things you decided not to do are worth doing now that the cost of trying has dropped. The instinct with AI is to look at something you’re already doing and ask whether it can be done…
Wholesale prices were unchanged in July, coming in below expectations for a 0.2% increase. The Producer Price Index was flat after a revised 0.1% decline in June, while the annual rate fell sharply to 4.7% from 5.5%. Wholesale prices are still 4.7% higher than a year ago, and beneath that flat headline number there are several very different forces moving in opposite directions. The primary reason July looked so tame was goods, and particularly energy. Final-demand goods prices declined 0.7%, with energy falling 3.1% and food dropping 0.9%. This follows the enormous energy shock earlier this year when final-demand goods…
Key Takeaways Former Microsoft executive Rob Collie says that one tactic is the best way to AI-proof your career. Collie says that workers should not wait to see what AI does to their jobs. In his view, no one can reliably predict which roles will change most or how quickly. His simple test could tell you if your job might be vulnerable to AI. Rob Collie spent 13 years at Microsoft helping lead business intelligence work in Excel. Even with that technical background, he says that AI initially scared him. “I wasn’t immune to that,” Collie says in a new…
The Center for Strategic and International Studies conducted an extraordinary survey of 64 leading experts on China, Taiwan, and cross-Strait relations, including 28 former senior U.S. government officials, 23 former government policy and intelligence analysts, and 13 academics and think-tank experts. What their answers reveal is not that China is preparing to invade Taiwan tomorrow, as the neocons would like everyone to believe, but that Beijing remains willing to wait so long as nobody crosses the line of formal Taiwanese independence. Some 84% said Beijing is willing to wait for unification but will not accept the status quo permanently, while…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Subtraction has a ceiling: once you’ve automated the obvious, you’re left with a cheaper business, not a more valuable one. Agents scale your execution and your blind spots equally — the more they do, the more your judgment has to be worth. Let me be clear about where I stand. AI agents are real, and they are not hype. The market has stopped arguing about it. When AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM, Databricks, and the major consulting firms all describe agents in nearly identical terms — systems with goals, memory,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways After achieving a big goal, the advice is often to set a new goal and get back to work. But there’s a problem with this advice. Dopamine, adrenaline and cortisol drop after a big win, and what you’re left with is the arrival fallacy: the gap between what you expected to feel when you crossed the finish line and what you actually feel. When you set a new goal as fast as possible, you train your brain to treat the natural rest state after high output as a signal that…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most organizations don’t stall because CX transformation is impossible. They stall because they misdiagnose where they’re stuck. Platform, people and process are the three pillars of CX transformation. The organizations that stall are almost never stuck on all three at once. They’re strong on one or two and weak on another. Most organizations have a clear and obvious constraint in one of these three areas, and they usually can recognize which one it is pretty quickly. Transformation has become the default vocabulary in customer experience (CX). Leaders who were once…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. AI companies are suddenly scrambling to watermark their work. Anthropic said this week it will start marking text created by its AI, including Claude, so it can be identified as AI-generated. The move complies with a new European Union law that kicked in August 2, according to TechCrunch. Every new model going forward will have this built in automatically, and the mark is supposed to stick around even after you copy and paste the text somewhere else. It’s still unclear exactly how much you’d need to edit that text before the mark…