No matter our age, we never stop learning – and this has been truer than ever for me in 2024, a year that has seen me learn many life-changing lessons. Some of this year's lessons have had a profound ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold Music is a ...

As a former small business owner and now Chief Customer Officer at BILL, I'm constantly inspired by the entrepreneurs I meet. Their creativity, resilience and drive to innovate never cease to amaze me ...

As the former CEO of a company where I spent many years early in my career, Bernie was someone I had the privilege of working with closely. Even after his retirement, we kept in touch for 17 years, ...

In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...

I’ve been at this entrepreneurship game long enough to have earned a few scars—some from competitors, some from economic hurricanes. But truthfully, the deepest wounds have come from my own leadership ...

Living with people 40 years older than me taught me more about life than any self-help book ever could. In the spring of 2021, my life was what one might call a train wreck. I was rehabbing an ACL ...

Running a business is not without its risks. Between initiatives that don’t pan out, partnerships that break down and promising products with little demand, failure in business can take many forms.

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