Allie says, "By the time you wake up, your AI should have already been working for you for hours.”
Is that so?
In an interview with Inc., Miller says that nowadays, she largely works out of Claude Code, the agentic coding system developed by Anthropic. She keeps multiple instances of Claude Code running simultaneously in separate terminals. Because these Claude Code instances have access to Miller’s filesystem, they can autonomously complete work on her behalf.
Take Dominique Fields who had every reason to believe she’d receive a promotion. The 32-year-old digital marketing manager in Nashville discussed internal opportunities with her manager multiple times. But with each conversation, she says, “the goal posts moved.” Then, in May 2025, she was laid off.
Fields was caught off guard. She’s not alone. Learn why.
Bezos’ net worth hovers around $234 billion. But despite decades of scaling one of the largest companies in the world, he said his experience with stress hasn’t fundamentally changed.
According to Fortune, Bezos has said stress tends to surface not when he’s overloaded, but when he’s avoiding something.
Find out how stress is really a symptom of something, as Bezos feels.
Is creativity dead? Can it be saved? Find out here.
As WPO members will tell you, the founder’s journey is often oversimplified, the path from a scrappy startup to a profitable business frequently boiled down to a few moments of inspiration that make founders look like magicians. As this article says, the narrative glosses over the frequent moments of uncertainty that founders go through.
Learn more and remember to focus on what matters.
A word of caution, though: Don’t overwhelm agents with an excess of information. With too much context, your agent may be a jack of all trades, but a master of none.
One of our WPO Chicago members, Valarie King-Bailey (shown above) is featured in the list! Congrats!
Photo credit: OnShore Technology Group
Today Vaca runs PG on the foundation that people are the asset, and providing service to them is the goal. She applies this mindset to both her clients and her employees -- and anyone who wants to learn how to create a successful business. "My purpose is to improve lives through entrepreneurship, and Pinnacle's is to connect them with opportunity," she said.
Learn more here.
And while you might be tempted to write off "having fun" as a performance strategy more applicable to entertainers than business leaders, a number of leadership heavyweights -- from noted psychologists to high-performing business leaders -- echo [new comic Tiffany] Haddish's belief that having fun boosts the performance of both leaders and the companies they helm.No kidding. Read more here.
Those are actually the easy ways we can support women in business. The real challenge is continuing to support women when it requires that we hold them accountable for bad behavior or intercede when we see them making decisions that could damage their reputation or company.If you care, read on ...
In the beginning, that [asking a lot of questions] usually involves numbers. Most new entrepreneurs are salespeople with no background in accounting. They don’t understand the basics of finance. I find that women are open about this and are eager to learn. Of course, most of the men don’t have a very good grasp of the financials either, but they’re more likely to bluff, pretending they know more than they do.Read more: What male entrepreneurs need to learn from women
... more than 46 million members in 25 countries and close to 5,000 employees worldwide, about 900 of them in its D.C. headquarters. Fueled by close to $1 billion in funding from VC firms and Amazon.com, LivingSocial has acquired nearly a dozen companies and launched offerings aimed at travelers and families.Find out how LivingSocial founder Tim O'Shaughnessy does it. A whole lot of lessons here.
One insight: "If you're not nervous about one or two decisions every day, you probably aren't trying hard enough."Illustration credit: LivingSocial
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1. Use social media to help your campaign.Read more:
Yes, we just said customers are more tolerant of e-mail pitches. But an established social media presence will smooth and enhance the path to direct ...
Have you fantasized about ditching your office space, saving a boatload of money (rent) and taking your entire enterprise virtual? It's in line with the expression: If you can dream, it, you can do it! We know for a fact that many WPO members are already running thriving virtual companies. Technically, your office is wherever you are.
If ever there were a consideration, now is the time to think about moving your business to an urban area. Why?Goldman Sachs recently announced that it would provide $500 million in support for 10,000 small businesses, particularly those located in urban neighborhoods. A Who's Who of business leaders including the billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter have signed on the help.Find out how the money will be spent by reading an interview conducted by Inc.com editor Mike Hofman with Dina Powell, the executive in charge of the program here.
But the person who will be responsible for running the initiative day-to-day is Dina Powell (pictured), a former State Department official in the Bush administration who worked with Karen Hughes on education and cultural issues. Powell joined Goldman Sachs in 2007, as the global head of corporate engagement. Her first task was to set up a program called 10,000 Women--an initiative to foster entrepreneurship among women around the world. The small business outreach effort will be modeled on that program.
Our criteria are that a business must have between $150,000 and $4 million in revenue, four or more full-time employees, and that it has been in operation for two years at a minimum.
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