Cinnamon is having a moment, and Cinnabon might be the biggest beneficiary. More chefs are sprinkling on the spice’s cozy, nostalgic appeal than in years past, according to Restaurant Business, and Cinnabon has ridden that wave to its best growth year in company history. The chain opened over 300 new locations in 2025, more than almost every other fast-food brand except Wingstop, QSR reports. Only Wingstop opened more, with 382 net new stores. But it wasn’t just the cinnamon rolls doing the heavy lifting. Cinnabon has been quietly building out its drink menu, rolling Seattle’s Best coffee into stores nationwide…
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There was a time when America’s industrial titans built railroads, steel mills, and oil companies. Today, influence is measured in data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, media, and information. Few families illustrate that transformation better than the Ellisons. Larry Ellison built Oracle from a small software company into one of the world’s largest technology firms. His background and rags-to-riches story are quite interesting. Today Oracle is one of the dominant providers of enterprise databases and cloud infrastructure, serving governments, financial institutions, healthcare providers, defense contractors, and many of the world’s largest corporations. Oracle’s software touches enormous portions of the global economy.…
Robert Irvine does not do “small.” He is a celebrity chef, British Royal Navy veteran, bestselling author, relentless road warrior and the driving force behind the Robert Irvine Foundation, which supports service members, veterans, first responders and their families. His latest project is a six‑month national tour with rock band O.A.R., using their 30th anniversary tour to raise money and awareness for veterans with special donation activations at every stop. Last time I chatted with Robert, it was live on stage at a How Success Happens recording in New York City last summer. It was great to reconnect and dig…
Germany spent decades building one of the most productive workforces in the world. It trained engineers, scientists, technicians, physicians, and business leaders under the assumption that education, sacrifice, and hard work would provide a better standard of living. That social contract is now breaking apart. The people who followed the rules are discovering that the government regards their success as taxable property. Euronews reported that more than 288,000 German citizens moved abroad within a single year. Germany recorded roughly 97,000 more German citizens leaving than returning, the largest net loss since 2017. This is no longer limited to retirees looking…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Internal requests need the same clarity as external campaigns — a clear ask, context, and a real deadline or they’ll get deprioritized by default. Making work visible to stakeholders’ managers and following up on a consistent schedule turns accountability into a system instead of a personality trait. If your marketing projects keep stalling, the problem is rarely the strategy. It’s the system surrounding how work actually gets done. Most marketers are highly skilled at influencing external audiences. They know messaging, timing and what drives action. They can move a prospect…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Bad news doesn’t erode trust — surprise and confusion do; teams stay engaged when leaders explain the decision and the reasoning behind it, not just the outcome. Every hard conversation should hit four beats: state the facts directly, explain the business context, acknowledge the human impact and lay out a clear path forward. In 2008, the financial world was coming apart at the seams. I was at Morgan Stanley, and no one knew what was coming next. But when leadership came in to talk to us, they did it in…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A clear leadership message can change the language in the room. But when pressure returns, people follow what the organization has made safe, protected and survivable. If speed, ownership, transparency or accountability create risk for employees, the organization will continue defaulting to slower, safer behaviors. The sharper question isn’t whether the message was clear, but whether the system made the message safe to act on. The message landed well. You’d just told the organization specifically what needed to change. Decisions had to move faster, ownership had to become clearer, problems…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Fewer clicks isn’t the same as less impact. Your buyers are doing more of their homework before they ever hit your site — in AI answers, reviews, videos and DMs you’ll never see in analytics. A traffic dip can actually mean people are showing up more informed and closer to buying, not that your marketing stopped working. Imagine your CEO walks into your office and says, “Website traffic is down 12%. Should I be worried?” Ten years ago, the answer might have been yes. Today, the honest answer is: maybe.…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most companies still measure customer experience (CX) as a cost center using metrics like handle time and deflection rates — but measuring it this way is costing companies more revenue than they realize. Stronger CX organizations focus on metrics that signal real business outcomes, not just operational efficiency. These metrics include customer retention influenced by support interactions, revenue protected through CX intervention and lifetime value correlated to resolution quality. Reframing CX as a revenue function requires building the operational infrastructure to support it. Reporting must also change. CFOs respond to…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 307.00 points or 0.46% to 66,422.60 • Shanghai increased 9.744 points or 0.25% to 3,876.777 • Hang Seng increased 318.15 points or 1.28% to 25,210.81 • ASX 200 increased 16.00 points or 0.18% to 8,839.00 • SENSEX decreased 363.66 points or -0.47% to 76,391.39 • Nifty50 decreased 126.65 points or -0.53% to 23,869.60 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00255 or -0.36% to 0.69720 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00437 or -0.75% to 0.57723 • USDJPY increased 0.65 or 0.40%…