Global employee stress has reached a record high, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report. The report found that 44% of the world’s workforce reported significant daily stress. The Negative Experience Index, which tracks daily stress, sadness, and worry, has also reached its highest level in more than a decade, according to the State of the World’s Emotional Health 2025 report, also from Gallup. While the U.S., Canada, and the Australia/New Zealand regions consistently lead these rankings, the data signals that the world seems to be experiencing collective levels of exhaustion. How should one deal with a world that…
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LinkedIn knows it has a slop problem. It has a button for that. The button, which debuted the week of July 27, allows users to flag content on LinkedIn that they believe may be “AI slop.” The option appears in a three-dot menu in the top right of any post, and shows a diamond with an exclamation point, followed by the phrase, “Seems like AI slop.” In a post to the platform on July 30, Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, explained that the button will help LinkedIn “tune our models and make better feeds.” It’s just one part of…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Define the guest experience, then build technology around that vision. Data alone can’t determine what makes a great restaurant; you have to combine analytics with authenticity. Businesses that own the customer relationship can create more meaningful experiences. Before a customer places an order, the restaurant already knows it’s their 100th visit. A free cookie is waiting for them. “That’s digital hospitality,” Deborah Matteliano, Global Head of Restaurants at Amazon Web Services (AWS), says. “It’s using technology to make somebody feel seen, understood and special.” For Matteliano, that moment has nothing…
Biden’s autopen granted Anthony Fauci a “full and unconditional pardon” for any federal offenses he may have committed or participated in from January 1, 2014, through January 19, 2025, provided they arose from his service as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or Response Team, or chief medical adviser. That was not a pardon identifying a particular conviction, indictment, or even a specified offense. Biden attempted to place an eleven-year federal shield around virtually everything Fauci did in those official positions, extending years before COVID-19 appeared and…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The economics of the customer relationship have already moved in a direction that makes the old customer experience model structurally inadequate. Customer experience should be treated as a revenue function, not a cost center, because every customer interaction carries more financial weight than it did 10 years ago. The infrastructure needed to run CX as a revenue function now exists, thanks to AI. It can identify churn risk, provide agents with full context, route high-value cases and continuously analyze its impact. The businesses seeing the greatest ROI from CX made…
Moderna is back at the public trough with another experimental mRNA vaccine, this time targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. CBC reports that Health Canada has authorized a Phase 1 trial of mRNA-1469 at three Canadian sites involving about 80 adults. Canada has never recorded a single Ebola case, and its government admits the risk to the general population is low, yet healthy Canadians will supply the human data for a product intended primarily for a third-world African nation. As of August 1, there were 3,748 confirmed cases and 1,657 deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The biggest gap between managers and founders isn’t credentials or capital — it’s a willingness to act on early signals, own outcomes over activity and make room for other people’s best ideas. Asking “what would I do if this were my company?” reframes every leadership decision: it moves you from hesitation to ownership, from managing tasks to driving outcomes and from controlling ideas to unlocking them across the team. A senior executive I know once pulled me aside after a board meeting, frustrated. He had just hired a senior executive…
The September Duma Elections – Will Putin Face Pressure to Escalate or Moderate? One of the greatest mistakes analysts make is assuming that international events are driven solely by the decisions of a single leader. They personalize history, reducing complex geopolitical developments to one individual. Netanyahu did that assassinating the Ayatollah assuming instant victory. The world is far more complicated. Political leaders are often reacting to internal pressures that are invisible to outside observers. The upcoming State Duma elections deserve attention not because they are likely to determine who governs Russia immediately, but because they may reveal how much political…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The exhaustion many Black women leaders feel doesn’t match their workload because they’re paying a hidden three-part leadership tax: the performative tax of managing perception, the weight of representation and the navigation tax of constantly reading the room. Reclaiming energy starts with visibility, not overhaul — stop confusing presence with influence, protect recovery like a meeting, make one strategic cut and redirect that energy toward what actually moves you forward. For a long time, I thought I was tired because I was working too much. That seemed like the obvious…
Germany’s political class has finally discovered the source of the nation’s economic collapse, and naturally, it is everyone except the politicians who created it. Germany is considering weakening its revered Sonntagsruhe, or “Sunday rest,” as officials search desperately for some way to revive an economy they have suffocated with high taxes, unaffordable energy, endless regulation, and ideological nonsense. Their brilliant solution is to keep stores and businesses operating seven days a week, tighten sick-leave rules, push people to work longer, and gradually raise the retirement age. They destroyed the German economic model and now expect the German people to surrender…