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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Being nice protects someone’s feelings in the moment, while being kind gives them the honest feedback and clear expectations they need to grow. Boundaries are a form of kindness that protects the leader’s energy and judgment, which ultimately protects the team. One of the questions I get asked most often is whether kindness really belongs in leadership. I understand why people ask. Somewhere along the way, kindness became confused with weakness. We started believing that if a leader is compassionate, they must also be permissive. If they care about people,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Resilience is a skill you build before a crisis, by practicing clear, focused decision-making on everyday setbacks. Accept hard realities quickly, expect problems to come in waves and take time to recover and reflect once the crisis has passed. Ask any entrepreneur about the worst leadership crisis they’ve ever faced, and they’ll have an answer immediately. It probably wasn’t their proudest moment, but it likely made them a stronger leader.Those defining moments don’t always happen at work. Mine came on Mount Kilimanjaro, when my wife suddenly lost her eyesight from…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Expansion creates real growth only when each new business strengthens the ones you already own, so random diversification often adds complexity without adding leverage. Before launching a new venture, ask whether it serves the same customer, builds on an existing capability, creates opportunities for your other businesses and can run without draining your attention. Entrepreneurs love the idea of diversification. After building one successful company, the temptation is to chase the next opportunity that comes along. A friend pitches a restaurant concept. Someone mentions a real estate deal. A franchise…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Treat your standards as a filter that keeps misaligned hires, partners and habits out before they create costly friction. Set clear expectations for behavior and communication before investing in growth, then raise them as your company scales. Many leaders see high standards purely as a tool for achievement, whether that means gaining a competitive edge or outperforming the market. For years, I saw them that way too, judging my organizations mostly by execution and output. But working in multiple executive roles has taught me something deeper: High standards are fundamentally…

Key Takeaways Gwynda Jones turned a major personal health setback and a long corporate career into an entrepreneurial second act, opening a Hotworx franchise in downtown Chicago in 2023. Hotworx is a 24/7 fitness studio franchise that combines exercise with infrared saunas. Jones funded the venture largely with retirement savings accumulated over 38 years. As a corporate executive for PepsiCo for 30 years, Gwynda Jones was accustomed to high-intensity work. Then health complications derailed her ambitions.  “In 2013, I had a heart attack and stroke and was disabled,” Jones says in a new interview with Entrepreneur. “Over the years, I…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Sophistication is assumed to protect people from being fooled. Our data found the opposite. Higher income and more education both correlated with worse accuracy at distinguishing an AI-edited video from a human-edited video. People weren’t guessing randomly. They used a consistent, wrong heuristic: Simple editing must mean a human made it; polished editing must mean AI made it. In this study, that was backwards. This goes beyond video. Any business assuming a certain customer segment will catch a shortcut or a quality drop is relying on an intuition that has…

Key Takeaways Jay Jones, who calls himself “The Profiler,” investigates suspicious listings and recruiter profiles, then reports them to platforms and companies. Jones says he has helped identify and remove nearly 60,000 fake job postings. The vast majority were on LinkedIn, alongside more than 7,000 allegedly fraudulent profiles. He calls himself “The Profiler.” Recruitment scammers call him a problem.  This isn’t the premise of a superhero movie — it’s everyday life for Jay Jones, a 39-year-old Chicago-based resident who spends hours daily tracking down fake job ads and fraudulent recruiters on job boards. Jones is an out-of-work copywriter who now spends…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Keller and Carlisle spent nearly two years building Rorra before making their first sale. The company used AI to poke holes in the launch strategy for Rorra’s $249 water pitcher, then adjusted the plan based on the feedback. Rorra did eight figures in sales in its first year, and Keller says the company expects sales to grow two to three times this year A basic water filter pitcher typically costs around $20 to $40. Rorra, a startup water filtration company known for its stainless-steel countertop system, is asking $249 for…

Published September 24, 2026 03:31PMIngrid Yang, MD, is a board-certified internist who specializes in longevity. She’s also a travel journalist and yoga teacher who journeyed to Vietnam in search of the perfect yoga retreat and said that her trip to Sardinia, Italy, changed her perspective on aging. During a visit to Indonesia, she met firefly conservationist Wayan Wardika and noticed an eerie parallel between declining firefly populations and human longevity. Here’s what she uncovered during her stay. Now that summer has officially come to a close, I’ve been reflecting on one of its highlights: the fireflies. Anyone who has ever chased…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If your AI agent performs a simple, easily replicated task — especially at a low price — customers can churn quickly when larger platforms offer the same capability for free. AI products that are built around a specific, “boring” industry’s paperwork, compliance and distribution channels (rather than a generic task) can command higher prices and create meaningful switching costs. Venture capital needs 10x growth off a thin horizontal wedge; a vertical AI business needs strong retention, margins and enough cash flow to fund its own growth rather than a VC’s…