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Anyone who has spent time in a workplace knows the “go-to” person. They are the colleague who can figure things out when others cannot, and who steps in when something complicated needs to get done.Early in your career, becoming that person feels like success. In many ways, it is. Being capable accelerates opportunity. Leaders notice you, people trust you, and your reputation grows.But over time, something subtle happens. The more capable you prove yourself to be, the more people rely on you.I call this the capability curse.The capability curse occurs when someone’s proven ability to solve problems leads others to…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Companies often pay twice for the same expensive lesson because the reasoning and logic behind decisions isn’t captured. Lost learning occurs when leaders move roles, get promoted or leave the company and the reasoning behind key decisions doesn’t transfer to the next leader. Before closing a program or transitioning ownership, leaders should identify pivotal decisions, explain which options were rejected and why and clarify the conditions under which they would make a different call next time. I watched a Fortune 500 business unit spend 18 months stabilizing a complex supplier…

There is a budget line in your business that no one is managing. According to research by Leadership IQ, confirmed across multiple subsequent studies, the average 18-month failure rate across industries is 46%—meaning nearly one in two hires either underperforms significantly or leaves within 18 months. The cost of each of those failures runs between 50% and 200% of that employee’s annual salary, accounting for recruiting costs, onboarding investment, lost productivity, team disruption, and replacement.Run the math. A company making 50 hires a year at average fully-loaded salaries of $95,000—not a large organization, just a growing one—is sitting on a…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Avoiding problems might make your life easier now, but it creates new challenges you’ll have to deal with later. Retrain your brain to embrace crisis by moving toward problems instead of away from them, building relationships before you need help, taking time for stillness and separating reality from your fears. Identify the hardest thing you’ve been working around in your life or business. Name it clearly. Then take a step toward it instead of continuing to avoid it. Although I’m not the world’s number one Miley Cyrus fan, I can…

A typical map of temperatures across the planet shows just a snapshot in time, listing the day’s various highs and lows. But temperature isn’t static; it rises and falls, and it’s influenced by all sorts of systems, from ocean currents to solar radiation. An animated map from Maps.com shows those variations, revealing the patterns that swirl around our planet—and depicting the gradual way Earth heats up from east to west as the sun rises and sets.[Image: Maps.com]The animated map is part of a new feature called Earth in Action, through which Maps.com (a platform by spatial analytics company Esri) produces daily, near…

Elon Musk is about to boldly go where no man has gone before: trillionaire territory. Today, SpaceX confidentially filed for an initial public offering, eyeing a June launch that could raise $50 billion or more, according to the New York Times. The rocket and satellite maker values itself at over $1 trillion, which would make it one of the most valuable companies ever to hit public markets. Musk, 54, owns around 44 percent of SpaceX as of 2022. His current net worth sits at $823 billion, according to Forbes, with much of that tied to his SpaceX stake. If the…

Archeologists at Dry Tortugas have solved a 150-year-old mystery by locating the lost grave of George Tupper, an actor-turned-soldier who died during the 1873 yellow fever outbreak.The only way to access Dry Tortugas National Park is by seaplane or boat (Photo: Jeffrey K Collins/Getty Images)Published April 1, 2026 03:30PMArchaeologists have solved a 150-year mystery at one of the nation’s most remote national parks. A team of National Park Service (NPS) archaeologists announced on March 31 that they found the lost grave of George Tupper, a soldier who died in 1873 at Dry Tortugas National Park. Tupper is the only known…

In Q3 of 2025, Bot Auto achieved its first “driver-out” run on public roads: a trip in which the truck drove itself with no human behind the wheel, and in our case, no humans in the cab at all. This is a milestone reached by only a tiny handful of AV trucking programs. From the founding of the company to that milestone, we spent just $212,552 on one category of work that is usually very expensive in AI: paying people to manually label training data—for example, drawing boxes around cars and pedestrians—so a neural network can learn from them.To many…

Key Takeaways The ‘retirement tax bomb’ refers to the often unexpected tax burden that comes in later years. Minimum distribution requirements can force retirees into higher tax brackets and impact Medicare. Anne Lester explains how account diversification and other key strategies can set retirees up for success. If you’re like a lot of people navigating this tax season, you might have a simple strategy: Pay what you owe now and forget the rest — aka defer taxes wherever possible — until you hit retirement.  “Many people assume their taxes will go down [in retirement] because their income will go down,”…

Following a fatal 60-foot fall on the popular Alum Cave Trail, a veteran guide breaks down the extreme ecosystem and hiker behavior that make the nation’s most popular park deceptively deadly.Listen to this articleListenA steep, rocky section of the Alum Cave Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Photo: Billy McDonald/Getty Images)Published April 1, 2026 03:45PMAlum Cave Trail is one of the most popular and picturesque routes in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). It can also be unforgiving. On March 28, a 65-year-old hiker plunged 60 feet to her death from the trail’s steep upper reaches. Authorities have yet to…