Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Disagree and commit.” When Jeff Bezos says it, it sounds so easy. Amazon’s founder famously encourages productive debate inside his companies. For Bezos, it’s not about building consensus but creating alignment. In his words, “I know we disagree on this, but will you gamble with me on…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When you think of startup funding, you may envision contests with almost no chance of winning or solid venture capitalists who will not be surprised by your concept. “Those who raise millions for their ideas’ implementation are just lucky ones,” you may think. It sounds surprising, but…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. People today are bombarded with messages from morning until night. We can’t check email or drive to the store without seeing flashing banners, mostly aimed at selling us something. Today’s consumers are experts at tuning these messages out, leaving salespeople with an important question: Do you ensure…
When a recession is looming, it’s always wise to monitor your spending habits. Furthermore, many areas of the economy remain under inflation pressure. Increasing demand for housing and spending on travel, dining out, and entertainment events have led to increases in rent, grocery prices, and hotel, restaurant, and airline flight prices. As inflation takes a…
When a refrigerator or freezer stops functioning, there aren’t many options — besides eating or donating — before all the food goes bad. But when it happens at a grocery store, the company might as well dole out the food to hungry customers. That’s exactly what happened at one Trader Joe’s location in Baton Rouge,…
Even America’s favorite pastime is not immune from climate change. A new study from researchers at Dartmouth College says that a warming atmosphere could be causing more home runs in professional baseball. The research, published last week in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, looked at 100,000 Major League Baseball games and found that…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Two years ago, I took a journey down the artificial intelligence rabbit hole, with a mission to produce and deliver to Discovery, Amazon and other broadcast partners what turned out to be an award-winning docuseries The Rise of AI. I met and interviewed leading global experts and…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We’re still struggling to move past a story about work that we fashioned 250 years ago. Our thinking hasn’t moved much past the Industrial Revolution when we decided to believe that workers only worked for money. We believed that assumption so firmly we designed work in a…
A recent survey by the National Financial Educators Council found that in 2022 financial illiteracy cost Americans an average of $1,819 per person. It’s the largest number in the six-year history of the survey. The survey is based on the average losses reported by 83,000 survey respondents in 50 states. Individuals were asked how much…