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Inspiring stories, tangible advice, and compelling lessons from a fearless cast of entrepreneurs. Presented by OPEN Forum from American Express OPEN.

Inspiring stories, tangible advice, and compelling lessons from a fearless cast of entrepreneurs. Presented by OPEN Forum from American Express OPEN.

Serial entrepreneur and noted author Faisal Hoque shows how to create a innovative-based corporate culture that truly meets your customers’ needs.

Younger workers all around the world now want to work differently than their parents did. Here’s what’s in it for companies.

The implicit — and explicit — expectation is that businesses should “do good” for others, should create something valuable to the world. The question, of course, is how?

Growing a business from scratch isn’t without certain pitfalls. Here are nine ways you might be sabotaging your business without even realizing it.

Where is the leadership? Is it tainted or toppled by hubris, narcissism, megalomania or some other tragic human frailty?

When the odds are long and there’s no help in sight, it’s our own skills that save us.

Our minds have an enormous capacity to connect the invisible dots to guide us to strive for the impossible.

A lesson from the life of Leonardo da Vinci about how observing the world around you can lead to creative breakthroughs.

Good Habits Fuel Sustained Effort Needed To Achieve: The fewer number of tasks we try to do, the more effectively we tackle the tasks at hand.

Creating long-term value with limited resources is a huge challenge for entrepreneurs, but it’s hardly a novel one.

What entrepreneurial-minded people have most of all — above inspiration, focus, skills, financing, brilliant ideas, etc. — is that they never give up.

Success often has much more to do with perseverance than it does with a person’s innate qualities.

Entrepreneurs are praised for their triumphs, but what about their struggles and the journeys that brought them to success?

Our treatment of each other as humans is what ultimately brings success. Here are five ideas from our book “Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability” for connecting with the people to move your initiatives forward.

Changing self-doubt into self-belief is a choice. We are answerable for ourselves. Only we can change what and who we are.

Self-sabotage is any behavior, thought, emotion, or action that holds you back. Here’s how to stop sabotaging ourselves.

Mental toughness comes from compassion and vulnerability. Vulnerability can be defined as the diminished capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a hostile situation. Compassion means, “to suffer together.”