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These Franchise Trends Are Hot!
If you're looking to buy a franchise, start with this list. We break down 10 of the industry's hottest trends, and more than 400 brands to choose from.
You're Never Out of Options
An entrepreneur's path is never simple or easy-but you have more opportunities than you think.
Which Franchise Model Is Right for You?
There are two big ones: You're either a location-based business, or you're service-based. Here's how to decide between them.
Auditing Algorithmic Risk
How do we know whether algorithmic systems are working as intended? A set of simple frameworks can help even nontechnical organizations check the functioning of their AI tools.
Acing Value-Based Sales
To get the best returns on innovative products, collaborate with customers to define and share the commercial opportunity.
Engineer Your Own Luck
Companies that modularize and externalize their best capabilities are in a strong position to seize unexpected opportunities.
How AI Skews Our Sense of Responsibility
Research shows how using an Al-augmented system may affect humans' perception of their own agency and responsibility.
How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice
Large language models can enhance data and analytics work by helping humans prepare data, improve models, and understand results.
How Long for AI to Pay Off?
SPECULATION ABOUNDS CONCERNING AI’S ULTIMATE IMPACT ON ORGANIzations and marketing, but it’s tough to discern where companies are achieving results.
Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation and What to Do About It
Managers who feel insecure about their status tend not to encourage novel ideas from their employees. Fostering their identification with the organization can change this behavior.
The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot
Research shows that employees who are steered by digital nudges may lose some ethical competency. That has implications for how we use the new generation of AI assistants.
Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
Your organization's highest-performing employees want executives to focus on outcomes and accountability, not office badge swipes.
To Navigate Conflict, Prioritize Dignity
Four interrelated practices can bolster dignity, leading to more constructive problem-solving and collaboration.
The CEO's Cyber Resilience Playbook
What do CEOs who led through a serious cyberattack regret? Use this guide to learn from their experiences and take smarter actions before, during, and after an attack.
A Tale of Two Hot Sauces: Spicing Up Diversification
The contrasting paths of two hot sauce manufacturers show that managing exposure on multiple fronts is essential.
Serve More Customers With Inclusive Product Design
Use these questions to empower teams to design products for more diverse populations.
11,196 Years in Prison
Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the sation to decades of economic dysimction. Then he became Turkey's most wanted-and hated-man.
A Tale of Two Mice
Novelist Simon Van Booy tells the touching true story of how his pet mice inspired his newest novel, Sipsworth.
Searching for Answers in Faith, Poetry, and the Empty Forest
Calloway Song, winner of the 18th Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind his winning poem, \"Songs of Gideon.\"
A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky
Using magical realism and surrealism in your writing.
Steven Rowley
The New York Timesbestselling author discusses reconnecting with old characters, balancing humor and heart, and his new release, The Guncle Abroad.
Choosing Violence
The secret to writing animal characters.
Acting Against Their Nature
Four ways to create effective uncharacteristic behavior in your characters.
How Nature Journaling Can Help Your Writing
As writers, we want to transport our readers to the world we are describing or creating on the page.
A New Perspective Goes a Long Way
How exploring different perspectives in the drafting phase story's unique angle.
The Art of People-Watching
Advice for how observation can help you put people on the page.
The Ecology of the Family
Build and leverage a family ecosystem to develop and deepen your fiction.
Tech Silicon Valley Startups Are Invading The Military Market - Silicon Valley and the military have a complicated history.
At the end of February 2022-a few days after cofounders Luke Allen and Steven Simoni sold their 90-person restaurant-tech startup to DoorDash― Russia invaded Ukraine.
Walmart's Mr. Fix-It
When Doug McMillon became CEO in 2014, Walmart's sales had stagnated, and customers were defecting to Amazon in droves. Over the next 10 years, he built an e-commerce powerhouse-and extended Walmart's ironfisted hold on the Fortune 500's No. 1 spot. Can McMillon and the big-box giant stay on top in a digital age?
The Death of the American Pharmacy
Bartell's, a beloved Seattle drugstore now owned by debt-laden Rite Aid, is closing many of its locations. Its demise is the latest symptom of a national health care crisis that hurts all of us.