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"You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you." Read it once and it sounds like a typo. Read it again and it might be the most honest piece of life advice in a single sentence. The energy you're surrounded by every day quietly shapes your beliefs, your ambition, and your standards, often without you even noticing. So, if you've been feeling stuck, don't just look inward, look around you. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do isn't wo

Here's the hard truth about AI: the more convincingly it presents information, the more critical it becomes to question what's beneath the surface. In the past six months, we've had AI produce things that were fast, polished, and completely wrong. The problem wasn't obvious. It looked right. It sounded right. We almost didn't catch it. And that's the real risk — not that AI gives you garbage, but that it gives you garbage wrapped in a bow. You think you're saving time. In rea

U.S. manufacturing jobs are down since January 2025, but factory output is up 2.3% and shipments up 4.2%. There's a quiet recovery happening, and according to The Wall Street Journal, it has almost nothing to do with tariffs. The real driver is demand. The AI build-out is pulling hundreds of billions into semiconductors, power systems, and data center infrastructure, things America happens to be good at making. Aerospace output is up 28%. Meanwhile, the sectors Trump protecte

In this edition of the AmiSights Podcast, we dive into the entrepreneurial journey of Linda Bradbury, founder and CEO of Scale to Black. With a rich background in the fashion industry and a passion for helping small businesses thrive, Linda shares her story and valuable lessons learned along the way. "The biggest thing that I think helps business owners in crisis is helping them find clarity first and foremost. When you're heads down, you're not necessarily thinking clearly.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has an unconventional but effective leadership habit: lying on his office floor and taking a 20-minute nap during the workday. Fortune wrote about a recent interview with McKinsey & Company, Kirby defended the practice simply, "If I take a 20-minute nap, I've accomplished more than anything else I would have accomplished in that time. When you're tired, your brain is not 100 percent. If you're not 100 percent, you shouldn't be making decisions.

"If you knew you were 1,000 rejections away from your dream, think how excited you would be every time someone told you no." If you knew that your dream was behind 1,000 rejections, every single "no" would feel like progress. You'd hang up the phone and think: 999 left. You'd open the next rejection email and think: 998. But in reality, we don't get a countdown. But, you do have control over your mindset. The people who reach their dreams are almost always the ones who racke

Next week, 65 members and alumni of the Entrepreneurs' Organization from around the world will gather at Banning Mills, Georgia for something that has never happened in EO before — the first-ever EO Grit Unconference! I've been part of organizing it, and I can't wait. If you've never heard of an unconference, here's the idea: there is no preset agenda. The community builds it together on the first morning. Anyone can propose a session. The best ideas rise to the top. People v

This isn’t futuristic, it’s live. According to NBC, an AI is hiring, managing, and directing humans. And it’s making things up, hiding facts, and still staying in charge. What matters: Authority without accountability. It makes decisions—but no one owns the outcome. Competence is inconsistent. Capable enough to run a store, unreliable enough to fabricate details. Humans are the buffer. They absorb mistakes while the AI keeps control. My take: We’re not replacing workers, we’r

I spoke with a business owner this week who needs about $150,000 to buy out a minority partner. She also wants a larger working capital facility to grow the business. Both are legitimate needs. But she was thinking about them as one problem to solve at once. The working capital ask is possible, but it is tricky. Her business can support it, but it's the kind of deal that takes time, the right lender, and the right moment to get done well. My recommendation? Don't wait. Get a