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When families interview a wealth manager, they typically review credentials, check performance history, and ask about investment philosophy. Michael Gold, who leads Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, believes all three are secondary to a single more telling question: what does the advisor’s process look like? Gold has worked with entrepreneurs, business owners, and multigenerational […]
Over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, Michael Polk Newell Brands has accumulated a set of leadership principles that reflect genuine experience rather than management theory. From his earliest days at Procter & Gamble to his current role as CEO of Implus LLC, those principles have centered on people, culture, and […]
When someone searches for a facial plastic surgeon, they look for evidence of trust. For Dr. Andrew Jacono, that evidence arrived in particularly visible form. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs publicly credited him with performing his facelift in 2021. More striking still, Dr. Paul Nassif a plastic surgeon with deep expertise in the field chose Dr. […]
Before Judd Zebersky became known for building one of the most successful independent toy companies in the world, he was a lawyer. After earning a JD from the University of Miami School of Law and launching his own firm, he made a decision that surprised nearly everyone around him. He wanted to make toys. “I […]
Government systems were not built for the digital age. Across federal agencies, infrastructure designed decades ago continues to define how public institutions process decisions, manage data, and serve citizens. The result is a compounding inefficiency that affects mission performance at every level. Technology founder and former government advisor Justin Fulcher has offered a clear diagnosis: […]
Children’s literature serves a function that goes well beyond entertainment. For Greg Soros, author of multiple works for young readers, a well-crafted book can show a child that their experience is shared or open a door into a life they have never imagined. He calls this the mirror and window approach. “Some children need to […]
Within academic medicine, the surgeon who trains future specialists carries as much influence as the one who performs the most operations. Dr. Andrew Jacono does both. As Fellowship Director for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he shapes how the next generation […]
Entrepreneurship in heavily regulated industries like energy requires a specific combination of patience, regulatory intelligence, and competitive ambition that is rarer than it appears. German energy company PLAN B NET ZERO demonstrates how these qualities combine in a founder and organization that is genuinely reshaping its sector. Bradley Mundt entered the energy market with a […]
Accountability is easy to claim and hard to sustain. Most organizations describe themselves as accountability-driven; far fewer have built the systems, norms, and leadership behaviors that make accountability genuinely pervasive rather than selectively applied. Grit Marketing has built accountability into its culture in ways that go beyond performance reviews and target-setting. The foundation is transparency. […]
Culture does not transfer automatically across borders. The organizational values, communication styles, and behavioral expectations that define a business in London may be received very differently in Malta, Lithuania, or Dubai — and managing this complexity is one of the central challenges of running a genuinely international business. Burak Basel has spent years developing Basel […]
