Behind any well-known surgical technique is a practice built to sustain it. Dr. Andrew Jacono performs roughly 250 extended deep plane facelifts every year from his Manhattan office, a volume that reflects both demand and two decades of refinement on a single procedure.The technique in question, the Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended facelift, departs from the SMAS approach that has defined facelift surgery for years. Rather than separating skin...
Chief executives often get cast as distant visionaries, but Michael Polk sees the job differently. After more than 40 years leading companies both large and small, the former Newell Brands chief executive says the role looks nothing like the stereotype, and he believes it needs to keep changing to match what markets and employees now expect.Public Company PressuresPolk spent much of his career at major corporations, including Kraft, Unilever,...
Client satisfaction above 95 percent is not a common benchmark in the podcast production business, but it is the standard Podcraft Media Lab has held since podcaster Greg Soros founded the company in Austin back in 2020. He built it after stepping away from a senior producer role at a prominent media company.Measuring Success in Small NumbersRather than expanding into a network churning out dozens of shows, Soros kept his company narrow,...
Two cities do most of the heavy lifting in Spain's startup story, and both sit at the center of the map drawn by Alejandro Betancourt López. Madrid and Barcelona have turned into real hubs, the kind that pull funding, engineers, and early customers into one place.Density is the whole point. Per Mordor Intelligence, the two cities concentrate venture money, engineering talent, and early-adopter merchants, so a young company doesn't need to board...
For Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, the most common failure in ultra-high-net-worth advisory work is not bad investment advice. It is fragmentation. Families with substantial wealth often surround themselves with capable professionals’ attorneys, accountants, investment managers who nonetheless operate in silos, producing blind spots and missed opportunities.Gold's solution is what he terms orchestration....
When Michael Polk stepped away from Newell Brands after years as its chief executive, few observers expected him to return to an active management role. But in 2019, Polk came out of retirement to lead Implus, a smaller, private equity-backed company. The decision reflected his conviction that meaningful leadership does not require a massive platform it requires the right conditions for impact.What Changes at a Smaller CompanyThe move from a...
Energy Transfer, the company Kelcy Warren co-founded in 1996 and still chairs, has grown into one of the most consequential pieces of American energy infrastructure. Its nearly 125,000 miles of pipeline transport roughly 30 percent of the country's natural gas and petroleum, and the company stands as the only operator exporting natural gas liquids from both the Gulf Coast and the East Coast.Warren has framed Energy Transfer's expansion not as...
In an environment where founders often compete on narrative, Justin Fulcher has made a consistent bet on something less visible: the quality of execution inside difficult systems. That bet has defined his work from a telemedicine startup operating across Asia to advisory roles inside the U.S. Department of Defense.What It Took to Build RingMDFulcher co-founded RingMD in 2013 at age 21, entering a market that required patience with complexity....
Great businesses are rarely built by individuals working alone. Behind most significant entrepreneurial achievements is a set of complementary relationships — partnerships that combine different skills, perspectives, and temperaments in ways that produce outcomes none of the partners could achieve independently. The relationship between Idaho business leader Karl Studer and Jesse Jensen represents this kind of high-value partnership.The...
The transition from individual sales contributor to sales manager is one of the most challenging in any career. The skills that make someone an exceptional salesperson — individual drive, personal charisma, competitive instincts — are different from and sometimes in tension with the skills required for effective sales management. Utah direct sales company Grit Marketing has developed systematic approaches to navigating this transition.The...