Sunday 16th March 2025

5 Gen AI Myths Holding Sales and Marketing Teams Back

Gen AI is a new and fast-moving technology. That leads to persistent misconceptions about what it can do—and what it needs to work successfully. Managers who buy into five key myths will be too slow to implement a technology that is proving extremely effective for sales and marketing functions.

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How a Company's Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes

Many observers underestimate the role that a company’s ownership model has on its approach to strategy and the risks it faces. Public companies tend to overreact to threats, while privately held companies are often too resistant to change and too slow to act in the face of threats. Negotiating the obstacles to company longevity often requires finding a “both/and” approach that finds the optimal point between these extremes.

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Transportation Secretary Says Boeing Requires Oversight After Loss of Trust

U.S. planemaker Boeing lost its way and also broken the trust of the American people after a January 2024 mid-air emergency involving a new Boeing 737 MAX and two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says.

"When you breach the trust of the American people with that safety and with your manufacturing, we're going to put the screws to you to make sure you change your ways and start doing things right," Duffy told Fox News Channel's The Faulkner Focus after a visit on Thursday to the Boeing 737 factory in Renton, Washington. "They've lost trust."


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VP Vance Anticipates TikTok Deal by April Deadline

The Republican president tapped Vance and national security adviser Michael Waltz last month to oversee the potential sale of the social media app. Last weekend, he said his administration was in touch with four different groups who were interested in a deal.

"There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise," Vance said during an interview aboard Air Force Two with NBC News, which first reported his expectation that deal terms would soon be reached.


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Emotionally Intelligent People Use a Brilliant 7-Word Phrase to Motivate Themselves, Keep Going, and Do Their Best Work

Steve Martin knew at a young age he wanted to perform for an audience. As a teenager, he'd spend countless hours practicing card tricks, juggling, and making balloon animals, eventually performing for tips. As an adult, a series of television appearances shot Martin to stardom. By his early 30s, he was one of the most famous comedians on the globe.

"What I always tell them—I've said it many years, and nobody ever takes note of it, because it's not the answer they want to hear," said Martin. "I always say, 'Be so good they can't ignore you.' "


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Want to Make Better Decisions Using Neuroscience? Train Your Brain to Think Like This

If you run a business, you make a lot of decisions. Imagine if there were a way to train your brain to reduce impulsive behavior and help make better decisions for the long term, backed by neuroscience?

Writing recently in the journal Brain Connectivity, researchers say they've found support for the idea that you can. The research was led by the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.


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With 1 Sentence, 4-Time Oscar Nominee Edward Norton Shared the Secret to Remarkable Success in Any Field

I like to ask people what trait they feel separates the good from the great. For racing drivers, it tends to be the ability to focus for incredibly long periods of time. For salespeople, it's usually the ability to not only hear "no" countless times, but to also learn from each.

Steve Jobs believed perseverance was the key to entrepreneurial success. As Jobs once said, "I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance."


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DOGE Could Increase Wait Times For Patents and Trademarks

But as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) begin their review of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), experts are warning that those wait times could become substantially longer, which could slow the pace of innovation in the U.S.

While it's unclear how many workers at the USPTO have either been laid off or accepted the government's early retirement option (officials did not reply to a request for comment), Vaishali Udupa, Commissioner of Patents, resigned in February. And people who work regularly with the department say they've heard of other, lower-level departures.


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Stories, Not Metrics, Are an Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon

When my client walked into his first major investor meeting, he thought he was ready. He had a meticulously prepared pitch deck. He was sure his software solution was revolutionary and that the bare facts and numbers would speak for themselves. Yet as he delivered his presentation, he could feel something was off. The investors weren't captivated by his slides. They were focused on him, searching for something in him - not his deck - to grab onto. That's when he realized a crucial truth: Facts alone don't sell ideas. Stories do.

Entrepreneurial success isn't just about having a great product or knowing your market inside out. It's about inspiring your audience with a compelling story that connects them to your vision, earns trust in you as a leader, and helps your investors see themselves as part of the narrative.


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Spaces for Connection or Isolation: Leaders Create Work Cultures

If one in three employees would rather clean a toilet than ask for help at work, then what does that say about your culture? That's not a hypothetical. It's what we found in a new U.S. study. My team at Pryority Group, a workplace performance and coaching company, conducted the survey on the hidden social behaviors that impact collaboration, performance, and engagement in today's workplaces. It's just one of the alarming signs of social muscle atrophy - the gradual weakening of workplace relationships and interpersonal skills because your teams aren't using them enough.

This isn't just about hybrid work or technology. It's about how you've accidentally designed your workplace for isolation. Meetings are rigid. Digital tools are transactional. Work is optimized for efficiency, not connection. The result? More silos. More disengagement. More "quiet quitting."


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