Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I also challenged HR leaders to seize the moment and help drive the requisite cultural change within their organizations. Many people subsequently reached out to me to argue that well-being cannot be just an HR initiative and that, to truly succeed, it requires the full buy-in and ownership of leaders at every level, including the C-suite. I found myself instantly agreeing with them. Back in January, my goal was to inspire HR leaders to make employee well-being a foundational…
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When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence” made the technology sound fake. Instead, he said, his government would start calling it “superintelligence,” or “SI.” Not long after those remarks, the president made it official. He signed an executive order that instructed federal agencies to use his chosen phrase instead of AI in official communications. What Trump says goes: The Department of Justice has since told its staff to follow suit, and other government departments are likely to follow—not least because the president has now branded anyone calling it AI…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways You can be deeply confident in what your company has built while recognizing that the right partnerships can help take it further. To successfully collaborate, you need to know what must remain yours and where partnership adds value. Where do you create unique value, and where could another organization’s expertise multiply it? Choose partners for what you can unlock together. Don’t evaluate partnerships by the name on the other side. Understand that the best partners make each other smarter and that you need to set clear boundaries before you collaborate.…
Key Takeaways Workman and his co-founders launched wearable baby monitor Owlet in 2015. In 2021, the company went public — then received an FDA warning letter. Owlet got FDA clearance, focused on lean profitability and has monitored over 2.5 million infants. This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Kurt Workman, co-founder and CEO of Owlet, the only over-the-counter, FDA-cleared wearable baby monitor. Workman and his co-founders Zach Bomsta, Jordan Monroe and Jacob Colvin met in college and launched Owlet in 2015, building it from $0 to $20 million in revenue in its first year. The company went public in…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The best mentors treat every conversation as a two-way exchange, asking questions that sharpen the other person’s thinking while staying open to having their own views challenged. A four-step process of building self-awareness, gathering feedback from five people, separating perception from reality and refining your defining stories creates growth for both mentor and mentee. Early in the evolution of social media marketing, I was interviewing a recent college graduate for an entry-level position. During the conversation, I found myself explaining how organizations were beginning to embrace social media as an…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When revenue levels off, review your financials and talk to frontline employees to find where you’re losing time, money and accountability before you launch another campaign. Use the following weeks to collect outstanding invoices and cut unneeded expenses, align every leader on the same 90-day priorities and give each fix an owner, a deadline and a measure of progress. Every entrepreneur eventually reaches a season when growth slows. Revenue levels off, referrals become less predictable and sales meetings run longer because everyone is searching for answers. Before long, someone around…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The modern workplace has long rewarded the ability to package thinking into tidy output over the quality of the thinking itself. AI now handles structuring, summarizing and formatting, which favors fast, associative thinkers, including many people with ADHD. Everyone is asking who AI will replace. Almost nobody is asking the better question: Who will AI release? It will release the person whose mind produces 10 ideas before breakfast and loses eight by lunch. The person who sees connections nobody else in the room sees but cannot get them into a…
Key Takeaways Jeff Bezos predicted that AI could boost productivity enough for more families to live on a single income. He said those productivity gains could allow some people to support their families while working just three days a week. Bezos predicted hiring challenges, not mass unemployment, as more people choose to work less or leave the workforce. AI leaders, including two of Anthropic’s co-founders, have cautioned that AI could rapidly replace human jobs, leading to mass unemployment. Now Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is outlining a different future, where AI leads to human labor shortages instead. In an interview earlier…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Leaders tend to blame cultural problems when performance stalls because it’s broad enough to describe everything and specific enough to implicate no one. Leaders who have stopped spending hands-on time with their people often don’t know what’s standing in their way. Ask how they’re feeling about the work, the pace and the environment. Ask people above you, your peers and your direct reports what they see as your strengths and your weaknesses. Reward people who raise problems before having a solution. Otherwise, issues stay hidden until they’re harder to trace…
QUESTION: What do you think of Trump threatening to cut rates or cut off trade with everyone if the US has a trade deficit? And while you are at it, what about this deal with Putin? BR ANSWER: Trump is a borrower, not a lender. There are two sides to every coin and then there is the edge. Trumps want cheap rates to borrow, but that reduces the income for the retired people and cash rich companies. If rates are so low then capital will NOT lend and you invest instead. The trailing dividend yield on the Dow Jones Industrials…