Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
Credit card debt has topped $1 trillion for the first time on record, according to a recent survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit showed an increase in credit card balances by $45 billion to $1.03 trillion, while total…
For centuries, the traditional driver for bringing a company or business of any size to fruition has been profit. This is the net gain one realizes after accounting for all the effort, costs, labor and time in order to maintain the business.The possibility of generating income far beyond what a…
There’s a popular notion that it takes three weeks for a practice to become a habit. Though, based on the recent shift we’re seeing in the workplace back to old, pre-pandemic practices, it seems as if three years might not be enough. In March of 2020, the world – and…
"Quiet quitters," the term for employees who prioritize work-life balance and only do the bare minimum work for which they're paid, had their time to shine — now the spotlight's on "loud laborers."Coined by André Spicer, an organizational behavior professor and dean of Bayes Business School, "loud laborers" care more…
When the Tennessee Titans take the field for their first preseason football game, they’ll have a new acting head coach on the sideline. On Monday, head coach Mike Vrabel, who is entering his sixth season with the Titans, announced that longtime assistant, Terrell Williams, will temporarily assume head coaching duties…
If you want progress, work for justice. That’s a paraphrase of Pope Paul VI from 1972 amid the Vietnam War. Then, the sentiment was about peace. More than 50 years later, we’re still talking about justice—but now in the context of economic mobility and the promise of American progress. And…
Hi, I'm Jeff... Serial entrepreneur, speaker, author and ordinary guy. To be honest with you, I didn't plan on becoming an entrepreneur. Around 15 years ago, I got laid off from my sales job. I was alone in my bedroom in my parents' house in San Diego. I had zero…
Boards have a quiet, growing crisis — understaffed and underskilled finance functions now struggle to meet routine stewardship responsibilities, leaving insufficient resources for digital strategy acceleration and business support. What’s worse is that most CFOs know it and have little appetite for change. A survey of over 1,000 financial executives,…
This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. Good morning, Soon, users may be able to use AI to create music using the voice, lyrics or sounds of popular artists like Drake, Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande,…
From the youngest Medicare insurance company founder to the engineer breaking barriers in deaf-blind communication, here are the young people from Boston reshaping biotech, healthcare and venture capital. By Pamela Jew; Illustration by Jordan Carter Much of the history of the United States begins in Boston. It’s home to some…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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