My 3-Step Process for Picking (or Nixing) a Co-Founder, After 30 Years of Starting Companies

Choosing the wrong co-founder can sink a promising business, so use this three-step process to test skills, values and behavior under pressure before handing someone half your company.

AI Is Doing More of the Work. Here’s the Super-Skill You Need to Master Now to Stay Ahead.

The rise of AI is making the ability to persuasive more important than ever before.

I Left Medicine to Build Companies. These 7 Lessons Rewired How I Think About Entrepreneurship.

Building a successful company requires founders to continually evolve by staying curious, listening closely to customers, trusting their teams, adapting to change and learning from experience.

Your Top Performer Just Got Promoted. Here’s Why That Might Be a Mistake.

Promoting your best employee feels like a reward. Sometimes it’s actually a setup for two failures instead of one.

Your Financial Statements Are Trying to Warn You. Here’s How to Read Them.

Financial statements become powerful strategic tools when entrepreneurs learn to read beyond revenue and profit to uncover trends, risks and opportunities before they become obvious.

Missed Deadlines Aren’t Always an Accountability Problem. Here’s What Leaders Overlook.

Sharper accountability fails when the person named to own the result only enters the work after the decisions that shaped the outcome have already been made.

What Black Women’s Leadership Can Teach Us About the Future of Work

Black women’s long-practiced leadership strengths offer a powerful blueprint for building more resilient, inclusive and effective workplaces.

A Successful Pilot Doesn’t Guarantee a Successful Rollout. Here’s Why.

Faster approvals, priority resources and senior intervention strengthen a pilot result because they remove friction. The wider rollout then has to operate without those conditions.

How Care-Centered Leaders Build Stronger, More Resilient Teams

Care-centered leaders build resilient teams by pairing high expectations with meaningful support, shared responsibility and trust while recognizing the often-unseen labor required to sustain that care.

These Childhood Friends Spotted a Hole in the Pickleball Market. A Year Later, They’re on Pace for $31 Million in Sales.

How James Ignatowich and Marwan Abaza built the pro-level pickleball paddle nobody else was making.