Run Your Business Like You Only Get One Take

Running a company means your audience is always watching. You can’t do anything new or noteworthy if you don’t put yourself out there in spite of the possibility of failure. Even a launch that underperforms provides clarity, momentum and direction. 

Learn what great business leaders performers share, and how it helps them seize opportunities instead of missing out.

It gets back to running your business like you only get one take. This is not a dress rehearsal. Real progress requires (calculated) risk.

Success On Her Terms: Empowering Journeys of Women Who Built Multi-Million Dollar Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (wegg) is a partner to the Women Presidents Organization.  In wegg's latest new series, Success On Her Terms, both of the multi-million dollar woman business owners in Episode 1 and Episode 2 are former WPO Chicago members.

Listen to the conversations and take note of key insights on discovering your true North and what truly matters in business and in life.

Success On Her Terms is hosted by Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global and powered by Merrill, the Baldwin Marcovici Group.

Scaling a Business Requires a New Mindset. Here’s What Might Be Holding You Back

Many founders can get their companies to $1 million in revenue, but very few successfully push through to $10 million.

The reason? They often rely on the same strategies that got them to $1 million without realizing that what worked in the early days can hold them back in the next growth phase.

Here are five common mistakes founders make that keep them from scaling to $10 million. But luckily, it’s possible to overcome them. Here’s how to scale a business the right way. 

Photos: Massive Winter Storm Sweeps Across the U.S., Including Chicago

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved.  (Chicago, 1/25/26)

An extreme winter storm is underway impacting two-thirds of the U.S. Starting Friday, 1/23/26 and expected to last through Monday, freezing rain, ice, and dangerously low temperatures will stretch from New Mexico to the Northeast.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled and power outages are of catastrophic concern especially for the southern states.

Take a look. 

Do What Works

This might not be the first piece of advice you’d expect from a wildly successful business coach who helps entrepreneurs expand their businesses. But you don’t hire Amy Porterfield to help you throw spaghetti against a wall and figure out what to try next. You hire her to tell you what works. 

Learn more about how this works and Amy's tips for transformation in 2026.

How to Rethink Leadership in 2026

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Leadership is setting out to initiate a global leadership lab to facilitate dialogue, collaboration and action with the aim of opening up new leadership futures that will create better outcomes for people and the planet. 

In its latest report, Next generation leadership for a world in transformation: Driving dialogue and action, the council outlines a holistic approach to addressing what appears to be a systemic rather than a purely human failure: The structures and institutions, the assumptions and traits that have long shaped how leadership is defined and exerted, are under unprecedented pressure. 

The report emphasizes four interlinked, but independent variables that shape the leadership cycle regardless of sector or region:

1. How leaders are selected
2. How they are trained
3. How they take decisions and action
4. How they are incentivized to manage their succession and long-term legacy.

Read on to learn more.

The Case For the Curious Leader in 2026

Leading others is difficult. Whether managing a team of five or hundreds of thousands of employees, leadership at any organization comes with demands and burdens that can buckle superiors. 

Discover how curiosity helps leaders thrive through uncertainty, spark creativity and build resilient teams in a rapidly changing world.

Make 2026 be the year you have an edge from being a curious leader.