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EDITOR IN CHIEF Jason Feifer CREATIVE DIRECTOR Paul Scirecalabrisotto DEPUTY EDITOR Frances Dodds PHOTO DIRECTOR Judith Puckett-Rinella MANAGING EDITOR Monica Im SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR Tracy Stapp Herold COPY CHIEF Jessica Levy RESEARCH Andre Carter
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The Better Way to Fail
WHEN THINGS go wrong, ask yourself this question: Did I just run an accidental experiment? The answer might be yes. And once you realize this, you’ll feel a lot better. Because here’s the thing: Mistakes suck. But the “accidental experiment” concept
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How to Get More Attention
Everyone wants attention. Few of us know how to get it. Why? According to attention-getting master Gary Vaynerchuk, it’s because most people misunderstand where attention comes from—and that the means of getting it keep changing. “Social media was on
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The Hire That Changed Everything
“Several years ago, a member of my management team convinced me we needed to hire a project manager to oversee research and development. I was reluctant; my skepticism stemmed from a lack of understanding about how critical that role was to help ever
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‘Sales Is a Very Emotional Process’
Maybe we don’t even need salespeople. As Molly He prepared to launch her company’s first product, that thought actually crossed her mind. “We believed it would sell itself,” she admits. He and two cofounders had created a startup called Element Biosc
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What I Had to Unlearn From Google
I spent 14 years at Google and YouTube—long enough to watch those companies go from scrappy upstarts to careful giants. I always prided myself on being quick to act and adapt, but by the end of my time in Big Tech, these traits weren’t always seen as
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It’s Not Retirement. It’s ‘Flextirement.’
Connie Goodnight runs human resources at Tank Connection, a rural Kansas company that makes liquid and dry bulk storage tanks. Five years ago, their head project manager made an unusual request: She was looking at early retirement, and wondered if sh
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Less Stress, More Summer
Here’s a Lego set for music lovers of a certain age—and the centerpiece of your next office party. It’s called Retro Radio [$100; lego.com], a 13-by-9-inch, 906-piece set that plays actual tunes. How it works: The left and right knobs control a sound
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Patent the Boring Stuff
Here’s the most important question a company can ask, according to a leading patent attorney: Do we anticipate others will also use this in the future? This question is helpful because it reframes the way we think about patents, which can unlock many
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What AI Can Do For You Nowf
First came the hype, with people claiming that AI would do everything. Next came the fear, with people claiming that AI would replace everyone. Then came the scramble, as seemingly every company raced (often clumsily) to integrate AI into their produ
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AI Improves People
It’s easy to forget that on the day ChatGPT came out, we all basically woke up with superpowers. Now anyone can code, create images, write faster, make videos, better understand human behavior, and learn about any topic under the sun. This is incredi
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‘How AI Helped My Business’
Whether you’re guessing which style of bra will sell faster or which job candidate will thrive at your company, AI can help with that. There are countless ways to use artificial intelligence at your business—so many, in fact, that the possibilities c
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Is It Real AI, or Marketing Hype?
Today’s tech market is inundated with products that claim to be powered by artificial intelligence. Some are, but some aren’t, and it can be hard to differentiate legitimate AI from existing tools hiding behind trendy buzzwords and higher prices. A b
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AI Tools That Actually Work
ChatGPT may sound like an obvious recommendation, but it still has many nonobvious uses—like helping to bridge language barriers. That’s what Florida-based jewelry company Artizan Joyeria uses it for:The company’s offshore customer service employees,
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Your Next Assistant May Be a Bot
People have wanted robot assistants ever since…The Jetsons? Now generative AI seems ready to deliver. And these assistants have a name: They’re called “AI agents.” Unlike a chatbot that can only compile a list of curated information—like naming a bun
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I Know Why Your Customer Service SUCKS
IF you’ve ever worked a minimum wage job, you’ve surely watched a lot of training videos. Narrated training videos are a key component of Learning Management Systems, or LMS, and they’re how you learn your job. I am now ashamed to admit this, but I m
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Best Of The Best Franchises
The franchise world can be an extremely competitive one, with thousands of brands in a wide variety of industries vying for both franchisees and customers. So what does it take to be the leading franchise brand in any given industry, from car washes
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A Tailored Teaching Approach
Early on in elementary school, Maria Washington’s son was struggling to sit still and pay attention. “His teachers wrote him off,” she says. “They said he’s not capable of this, or this, or this. They were telling me he wouldn’t amount to anything.”
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A $30 Million Winning Equation
Mo Khalil worked in sales, but he had the entrepreneurial bug. In 2003, he moved to Florida and opened a Verizon Wireless franchise, which he grew to multiple locations. But when his son was born, he says, “I started thinking about legacy and how muc
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What Makes Something Franchise-able
In 2004, Wade Brannon was coaching his son’s T-ball team when another player’s mother asked, “You’re the ham guy, right?” Well, he was the ham guy: He founded Heavenly Ham, built it up to $150 million in revenue with more than 200 franchises in 33 st
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Franchise Fixer-upper
Kenny Clark was looking for a failure. In 2014, the lifelong Texan decided he wanted to buy a Minuteman Press franchise because he liked the business: It was closed on weekends, required skilled workers (versus high school kids that come and go), and
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Top Franchise Brands for Multi-Unit Owners
While many franchisees are happy owning and running just a single business, some have bigger ambitions of expanding to multiple locations or territories, or even owning multiple franchise brands. Multi-unit ownership isn’t for everyone—it requires a
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Strength Flows Both Ways
From a young age, I collected role models. In school, as a teenager, I tried to channel Beyoncé. In the working world, after my first big promotion in retail operations, I paid close attention to our female executives. By watching and emulating other

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