Monday 25th November 2024

What Makes a Great Leader?

Tomorrow’s leaders master three key roles — architect, bridger, and catalyst, or ABCs — to access the talent and tools they need to drive innovation and impact. As architects, they build the culture and capabilities for co-creation. As bridgers, they curate and enable networks of talent inside and outside their organizations to co-create. And as catalysts, they lead beyond their organizational boundaries to energize and activate co-creation across entire ecosystems. These ABCs require leaders to stop relying on formal authority as their source of power and shift to a style that enables diverse talent to collaborate, experiment, and learn together — a challenging yet essential personal transformation.

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What Trump Means for Small Business Borrowing

At its core, the 2024 election largely ended up being about the price of eggs. This is typical, with economic issues generally taking center stage at election time. In short, a "bad economy" will always hurt the party in power.

The economy over the past four years has been strange, with certain sectors doing well, and others doing not-so-well. The not-so-well part has hit consumers and small businesses particularly hard. The price of consumer staples has risen, and people everywhere have felt the impact. Not to be left out, small businesses have been affected to a large degree as well. Business borrowing, whether for lines of credit or equipment financing, is down. Defaults are up.


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Top 10 Green Flags to Spot Great Candidates in 2025 Hiring

Hiring the right candidate isn't just about checking off qualifications anymore. In 2025, the job market is going to look even more different than what leaders are used to, with new trends and changing expectations reshaping what makes someone a great hire. It's not enough for candidates to simply meet the job's technical requirements. Companies today need people who can thrive in fast-paced, ever-changing environments and bring more than just hard skills to the table. Recruiters have to start looking at the human qualities that really help someone succeed and contribute to a strong, people-focused culture.

That means leaders need to approach interviews differently. It's no longer just about verifying qualifications or asking the same old questions. It's about digging deeper to understand the traits that will make someone a great long-term fit. Emotional intelligence, creativity, and adaptability are just a few of the key qualities that can set a candidate apart. 


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Trump's Treasury Selection Seen as Calming for Investors

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary could lift some of the gloom that has pervaded the sagging U.S. government bond market in recent weeks, investors said. 

The selection comes after days of speculation that weighed on Treasury markets already dogged by worries over a potential rebound in inflation and increase in the federal budget deficit from Trump’s economic plans such as tax cuts and import tariffs.


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Is Inflation Gobbling up Your Thanksgiving Plans?

The price tag of the traditional holiday meal, which also includes cranberries, sweet potatoes and stuffing, dropped for a second consecutive year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual survey released on Wednesday. 

That’s the good news. The bad news is the overall cost of hosting Thanksgiving is up, thanks to inflation. The typical host will shell out $431 on food, drinks and decor, a 19 percent increase from last year, according to a survey from Lending Tree.


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Countries That Use Large Amounts of Fossil Fuels Export Emissions to Other Countries

“Every night, we see particles falling from their chimneys. Under street lights, you can clearly see the dust raining down,” said Mostafa Mahmoud, a grocery store owner in the Wadi al-Qamar neighbourhood. 

Like many cement manufacturers in Egypt and across North Africa, the factory uses imported coal to fire its kilns. Lately, more and more of the region’s coal is coming from the United States, according to U.S. export data.


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How Trump Is Winning Over Union Members

Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, a political shift spotlighting one of President-elect Donald Trump’s latest Cabinet picks: a GOP congresswoman, who has drawn labor support, to be his labor secretary.

Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer narrowly lost her bid for a second term this month, despite strong backing from union members, a key part of the Democratic base but gravitating in the Trump era toward a Republican Party traditionally allied with business interests.


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Want Better Habits? Neuroscience Says This Is How to Train Your Brain

There’s a lively debate over who actually said that first, but it rings true. It also explains why so many successful people recognize that one of the keys to their success is the ability to adopt good habits and banish bad ones.

Good news: Research published by cognitive neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin suggests that there’s a real-world “playbook” you can use to leverage the way your brain naturally works to break bad habits or make better ones.


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10 Daily Habits of Some of Today’s Most Highly Successful People

While luck and being born with a good set of genes might play a role in the success of some, those things alone are no guarantee of success. There are plenty of stories of entrepreneurs and businesspeople who succeeded only after experiencing a long string of failures and disappointments.

An early alarm helps you get a jump on the day and sets a positive tone. Most successful people wake up before 6 a.m. to complete critical work without distractions. This habit offers a feeling of accomplishment early in life and extra time for growth.


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McDonald's Just Got Some Terrible News, and Its Reaction Was Something to Watch

Let’s start with the bad news, which I first wrote about here in October: It came when the Centers for Disease Control announced that an E. coli outbreak at McDonald’s had claimed the life of at least one customer and sickened 75 others.

It’s tough enough when people’s tastes change or outside economic forces negatively affect your bottom line. But imagine a federal government agency telling the world that people who bought and consumed your product got sick or died.


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