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Around the world in 2024, voters chose change: in South Africa, France,?Britain, and Japan. But nowhere does the anti-incumbent trend matter more than in the United States. The global uncertainty created by an oscillation of power between left and right—from Barack Obama to Donald Trump to Joe Biden and back to Trump—in the world’s only military superpower has again left political and business leaders in every region of the world scrambling to spot opportunities and risk. Trump’s comeback victory comes in a dramatically more unstable—and dangerous—geopolitical environment. Trump must manage two wars and a U.S. relationship with China that has grown?much more confrontational. For business leaders navigating the next four years, there are critical questions that must be answered. Read the full magazine story here: https://lnkd.in/ezGa_JH7

“We had such a belief system that … there’s goodness for the human body,” Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown tells Fortune. The Beyond Meat brand had a quick and early success, but it would not last, due, at least in part, to a 2019?campaign?mounted by the Center for Consumer Freedom. The campaign used prominent TV spots and full-page ads in the?New York Times?and?Wall Street Journal?to ask, “What’s hiding in your plant-based meat?” The aim was to paint plant-based burgers and sausages as unhealthier than beef and pork. And, much to the shock of?Beyond Meat?founder and CEO Ethan Brown, the campaign seemed to work. “It was a very difficult period,” Brown said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gds8ER-8

“I’ve longed to hear other words.” In an interview with News Not Noise founder Jessica Yellin at the #FortuneMPW Summit, actress Halle Berry said that she has longed for someone to say something other than “you’re so pretty” to her. “I know I’m more than this,” Berry said. “I think it’s a shame that as women, we’re being told that we have to find a way to stay eternally young, forever 30, as though we’re not allowed to be human and do what we’re naturally born to do,” she added. Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/gWjqMV_D

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid, the massive government programs providing health care to 150 million Americans. What could that mean if you’re on Medicare or will enroll in the coming years? While no one knows for sure, and Oz would need Senate confirmation to become the 19th Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it’s possible to read the tea leaves based on what we’ve heard from him, Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—Oz’s boss if confirmed by the Senate to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e7UA_kcX

“My gap year played a pivotal role in my career." Call it an executive sabbatical or a grownup gap year. From CEOs to celebrities, examples abound of leaders at the top of their professional game taking a step back for reflection, connection, and R&R. Matt Mullenweg, CEO of tech company Automattic, announced in 2023 that he was embarking on a three-month sabbatical, unplugging from work to focus on his chess game and learn how to sail. And before she took the helm of Taskrabbit, CEO Ania Smith moved for a year with her husband and children to Buenos Aires, where they took up dancing, horseback riding, and photography. Sabbaticals have been a fixture for over a century in higher education, where they’re an important way for scholars to advance their research, and they’re becoming more common in business since COVID upended work culture. Read more from the latest issue of Fortune Magazine: https://lnkd.in/e5i6WbtG

In his 2012 essay “Startup = Growth,” Paul Graham talks about a 5% to 7% weekly growth rate as table stakes for startup success. If you’re growing 10%, he says, you’re doing “exceptionally well.” What’s stayed with Andy Dunn, the founding CEO of Bonobos and Pie, the most from that essay is the way that Graham, a cofounder of the accelerator Y Combinator, articulates how gunning for 10% can create what he calls “evolutionary pressure” that forces founders to?discover?what the startup is for. But how do you get confident in your startup’s potential when you’re not yet growing—and how can you instill that confidence in potential investors? In the latest issue of Fortune Magazine, Dunn writes that at Pie, his current startup, "we didn’t start growing until our fourth year. We wouldn’t have made it that far were it not for raising more and more capital based on the promise that we would one day be worthy of those investments." So what indicates promise? Two things. Read more from Fortune Magazine: https://lnkd.in/e_GwQFKC

Fortune #BrainstormDesign is excited to welcome Gordon Ching, founder and CEO of the Design Executive Council, to our conference on Dec. 5. See our full list of speakers here ?? https://lnkd.in/dpgHXh5P

Gen Z workers came of age during the pandemic and missed out on one vital part of work experience: learning the office lingo. Just as they’re?confusing employers with their own new slang, the bright young minds of tomorrow are scratching their own heads at their boss’s demands—or rather, secretly asking ChatGPT for the definition of certain workplace acronyms. ?? Worryingly, the common term that has professionals most perplexed is KPIs. Read more in my latest for Fortune ???? https://lnkd.in/gRkAiws9 #GenZ #officeculture #returntowork

As the drumbeat of AI news continues, with major investments and acquisitions creating headlines, it’s important to pause and appreciate the revolution underway. With many thanks to Fortune,?read my latest article here.?https://lnkd.in/giqzXuzW??#Innovation #FutureofProfessionals #GenAI

Humbled to be featured in Fortune for “changing the game” in plant-based meat with our recent significant reformulation of our fourth generation Beyond Burger, Beyond Beef and Beyond Sausage as well as our newest product innovation Beyond Sun Sausage. Full article??? https://lnkd.in/g2JXJJa5