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Published August 3, 2026 07:30AMThe following is the first installment of Alex Hutchinson’s Sweat Science 101 newsletter series, a ten-part crash course on how to train, fuel, and recover. Sign up today.I’ve been writing the endurance-focused Sweat Science column, in various incarnations, for 17 years now. That means I’ve gone down a lot of rabbit holes and explored a lot of minutiae. (Need an article on, say, the application of French social theorist Michel Foucault’s writings to endurance training? I’ve got you covered.) But it also means that, in my search for interesting new angles, I sometimes neglect the basics—the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Movement fuels the cognitive work you’re paying people for — and McKinsey estimates that better employee health could unlock up to $11.7 trillion in global productivity each year. The fixes are structural, not perks: walking 1:1s, camera-optional calls, standing meetings and calendar blocks that make stepping away feel normal. Picture a typical day at your office. People typing at desks. Sitting in meetings. Sitting in the kitchen grabbing lunch. You can go through an entire workday without standing up once. That should worry any founder trying to get real output…

Published August 2, 2026 03:16AMSpend time in any mountain town, and it becomes apparent that they all have a few things in common besides puffy jackets and trucker hats. There’s the obligatory handful of craft breweries with outdoor patios and local coffee shops with mountain bikes parked out front and an extensive network of trails for all abilities. There’s also likely a yoga studio and an outdoor retailer or two along the main street with water bowls on the patio for the dogs. Bonus points if a river cuts through town. But over the last several years, a new fixture…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Track citations, mentions, and recommendations as three separate metrics — lumping them together lets you celebrate movement that never turns into revenue, because being visible in an AI answer and being recommended by it are not the same thing. Platforms like Peec, Semrush, and Ahrefs are useful monitoring infrastructure but not ground truth; the strongest setup is hybrid — automated tracking for broad patterns paired with monthly manual checks across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on the prompts that actually drive pipeline. According to a recent report, 94% of 250 surveyed…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most high-performing women spend 60% of their time on the work organizations publicly reward — committees, ERGs, mentoring, external visibility — while only 10% of it actually drives promotion. The fix isn’t better time management; it’s a weekly discipline built on one question: did anything I did this week move me closer to the people who decide my next opportunity? I was finishing my doctorate. I had two teenagers, one across the country at boarding school. I was working full-time, flying cross-country for school visits, writing and analyzing data in…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most performance issues aren’t talent gaps — they’re communication gaps: vague expectations, unsafe environments and assumed understanding that was never confirmed. Three habits fix most of them: run new initiatives through five clarity questions, replace “any questions?” with “how do you see this working?” and hold a weekly check-in on priorities, obstacles and support needed. Most leaders assume performance problems start with talent. When a project misses the mark or engagement drops, the instinct is to question whether the right people are in the right seats. After years of leading…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key takeaways When buyers ask AI platforms hyper-specific, bottom-of-funnel questions, the models often hedge, hallucinate, or contradict themselves — because the authoritative source material simply isn’t there. The founders who publish clear, structured answers into those gaps first will become the default response AI gives for years to come. Identifying the gap between what people want to know and the information available to them is the game — and good SEO practitioners have been playing it for years. Generative AI is just the next evolution of that process. Traditional search shows you…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Companies where both the owner and the business are visible to AI saw a 2.5% year-over-year traffic increase, while those where both were invisible dropped more than 28% — a 30-point swing driven entirely by whether AI could identify a credible human behind the company. Closing the gap isn’t a social media or SEO problem but an entity recognition one, solved by showing up in the third-party sources AI trusts: published articles, podcast interviews, speaking engagements, industry directories and local press. You’re doing the work. The phones are ringing and…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The strategist prompt that turns any AI tool into a decision-making partner for the calls that actually drive revenue How to map your own lead-to-payment pipeline and spot the steps AI can run for under $100 a month. The sorting prompt that shows you which roles to never hire for — and which must stay human. A cryotherapy franchise owner took her business from $300,000 to $1.1 million in a single year. No investors. No tech background. No 20-person team. She did it by spending a third of her day…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before we went remote, the office was running a relationship-maintenance operation none of us noticed — and when it collapsed, we didn’t realize it until our clients started feeling like strangers. I stopped pretending remote work is neutral: it has real costs that fall unevenly on client-facing firms, and until you name that honestly, you can’t actually fix it. Running a small accounting firm in 2025 means answering a question nobody has fully solved: how do you build a business clients trust deeply when half your team is working from…