Leadership
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Meet the 20-year-old CEO who launched a company in high school to solve Gen Z’s entry-level job crisis
For most teenagers, earning a driver’s license at 16 is a milestone of independence. It grants them the liberty to drive to a friend’s house on their own time, to see a movie, and to skip the bus to school. For Connor Vukelich, at 16, it was the catalyst for launching his business. After earning…
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Leaders, stop with the Gen Z generalizations
Gen Z are workshy teetotallers. They’re chronically online. They care more about sustainability than any generation before them. These sweeping statements litter headlines, crop up in conversation and get trotted out on social media. They’re mostly harmless… until they enter the boardroom. Whether your perception of Gen Z is shaped by real-world interactions or two-dimensional…
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America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why
The American worker is on a productivity tear and it may have more to do with a surge in working from home than the effects of AI, according to a Stanford economist. For the past five years, the output for non-farm businesses has increased by a sizable 2% per year, The Economist reported citing statistics…
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Before ‘Star Wars’ made him a multimillionaire, Harrison Ford struggled to make ends meet—so he spent 15 years working a trades side-gig
Harrison Ford is known to the world for helping turn characters like Han Solo and Indiana Jones into cultural legends. But before blockbuster Hollywood fame and multimillionaire status, Ford and his growing family were struggling to make ends meet. “Acting was not yet paying the bills,” he said this week during a commencement address at…
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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank says micromanagement is ‘underestimated.’ Steve Jobs and Elon Musk would agree
Micromanaging gets a bad rap, but it’s a method some CEOs still embrace. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank told Graham Bensinger in a YouTube interview published in September 2025 he believes in micromanagement “at certain levels.” “I think it’s totally underestimated,” said Plank, who founded Under Armour in 1996. “I think there’s too much loss…
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Nonprofit CEOs say Trump’s economy is driving surging demand—and they’re pushed to the brink
America’s nonprofits are being asked to do more with less, and the executives running them say the strain is causing massive burnout. Nearly three-quarters of nonprofit CEOs surveyed by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) said their organizations have experienced increased demand for their services brought on by cuts to major programs, according to a…
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Blackstone COO Jon Gray predicts ‘huge boom’ in blue-collar jobs—his own data center company is hiring 30,000 new roles
As generative AI threatens to upend the white-collar workforce, it’s creating a surge of opportunity in one corner of the labor market: the skilled trades. That’s at least according to Jon Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone—the biggest publicly-traded alternative asset manager—who predicted a “huge boom in blue-collar employment certainly over the next…
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Steve Jobs had a ‘beer test’ he used for interviews at Apple—if he didn’t want to drink with you, you didn’t get the job
Most job candidates walk into interviews armed with polished answers, rehearsed weaknesses, and a list of researched questions aimed to impress. But Apple’s Steve Jobs reportedly had a far less conventional way of deciding who got hired: the “beer test.” Instead of trying to catch candidates out with a trick question or quizzing them on…
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Job-hopping is now the fastest path to becoming a CEO—and company loyalty may actually hold you back
When Elliott Hill stepped out of retirement two years ago to take the top job at Nike, his LinkedIn profile had a viral moment. The new CEO had spent his entire career at the sports apparel company, starting as an intern in the 1980s before climbing the corporate ladder as high as it goes. That…
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Despite having a $165 million net worth, Scarlett Johansson says work-life balance doesn’t exist—and the first step to success is admitting that
As workers search for the elusive balance between career ambitions and personal life, one of Hollywood’s highest-paid stars has a reality check. For Scarlett Johansson, the idea of perfectly balancing work and life is more fantasy than reality. “I think actually admitting that there is no work-life balance is the first step to getting there…