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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Building your identity around titles such as “founder,” “writer” or “leader” makes your self-worth more dependent on other people’s recognition. Focusing on verbs shifts your attention from protecting an image to creating value through action. The giver mindset can reduce ego-driven pressure by making contribution, rather than validation, the measure of completion. “Hell is other people,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in No Exit. Philosopher Kiki Berk examines the phrase in her analysis of Sartre’s view of personal relationships. It does not simply mean that other people are unpleasant or responsible for…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Break a proposed role into its recurring tasks and sort them into four categories — judgment, relationship, repetition and coordination — to determine whether you truly need to hire another person. If the bottleneck is mostly judgment or relationship work, hiring or developing a person is probably the right answer. If the bottleneck is mostly repetition, test automation before adding permanent headcount. If the bottleneck is mostly coordination, redesign the process first. If the job contains all three, separate the workflow so the human role is built around the work…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Once a specific problem is solved, leaders often stop looking for the deeper conflict driving it. They treat evidence that one failure point has been fixed as evidence that the underlying problem has been fixed. Later problems get treated as separate issues. The organization ends up resolving the same underlying tradeoff several times, one decision point at a time, without seeing that those decisions belong together. Leaders should ask whether what was fixed was the problem itself, or simply the first place the problem became visible. The COO had every…

A severe fall on California’s 700-foot Power Dome left a climber heavily bleeding on a shoulder-width ledge 200 feet above the ground. To save him, a California Highway Patrol helicopter crew flew within 15 feet of sheer granite—the absolute limit of their safety clearance—to pull off a high-risk rescue.Published September 15, 2026 04:04PMOn September 11, a climber fell 200 feet while ascending on a 700-foot-tall rock face known as Power Dome in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. He was bleeding heavily, and his friends used a shirt as a bandage while they awaited a helicopter rescue. A California Highway Patrol (CHP)…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A process that prevented a past failure may become unnecessary as the business, people and risks evolve. Leaders should separately evaluate whether a control was effective and whether it remains necessary under today’s operating conditions. A response shouldn’t become permanent just because it succeeded. Success is the reason it needs to be questioned again. A costly mistake on an important launch had created exactly the kind of reaction you’d expect. The company tightened one decision point and required senior approval before similar changes could move forward. The added control worked.…

Published September 15, 2026 04:42PMOn September 10, a mountaineer from San Jose, California, summited Mount Shasta around 7:30 P.M. According to a rescue report from the Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service (STFS), that was the least eventful part of his climb.After his summit, the climber attempted to glissade down Avalanche Gulch, the most popular route to the top. Glissading involves sliding down a steep snowpack and is a technique some use to descend a mountain quickly. But he lost control and slid about 500 vertical feet down the slope. During the fall, his feet were severely injured. So, he took off…

Key Takeaways United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby limits himself to no more than four hours of meetings a day. He expects “conversational” meetings instead of meetings based on PowerPoint presentations. Kirby spends roughly three hours a day reading books, newspapers and magazines. Scott Kirby fiercely protects his time. The 59-year-old United Airlines CEO limits his schedule to a maximum of four hours of meetings a day, pushing back on the norm of CEOs in back-to-back, marathon meetings.  When he does make time for a meeting, he expects a real exchange of ideas. He doesn’t want a presenter reciting a PowerPoint…

Published September 15, 2026 04:06PMDon’t mess with Texas.That’s the thrust of a lawsuit filed on Monday, September 14, in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., by a coalition of Texas landowners who live near Big Bend National Park. Six landowners, alongside the group Conserve Big Bend—which represents 230 additional Texas landowners—are suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott over the government’s proposed construction along the U.S.-Mexico border in the area. Since the summer, construction crews have erected barriers, sections of walls, and roads through Big Bend…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Lenders evaluate management discipline, not just financial performance. Governance is often a better predictor of credit quality than last year’s EBITDA. Strong governance signals disciplined decision-making, reliable reporting and accountability — giving lenders greater confidence in the business behind the numbers. The financial statements help answer whether the business has created value. Governance helps answer whether that value can be protected. Most owners assume a lender’s opinion of their business is shaped by the financial statements. Revenue. Margins. EBITDA. Cash flow. Those numbers absolutely matter. They always will. But I’ve…

Published September 15, 2026 02:50PMThis article has been medically reviewed by Rachel MacPherson, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and ACE-certified personal trainer. One day at 3 A.M., a few weeks postpartum, I had my baby latched to my chest while scrolling social media in the dark. The algorithm had decided it knew what I needed: new moms in weighted vests walking through neighborhoods after dinner. The comments claiming they were “life-changing” were a good enough endorsement for me. I ordered one on Amazon at 3:17 A.M. My partner saw the box when it arrived, looked at the baby, and…