Jon Gordon shares his thoughts on the value of positivity for professional sports teams and Fortune 500 companies. Jon Gordon talks about his journey to becoming one of America’s thought leaders on the topics of positivity and teamwork after struggles with depression and negativity earlier in his life. Gordon explains how positive leadership impacts any team, from professional sports to the business world, and how the best leaders also tend to be the most humble. Gordon and The Playbook host David Meltzer, share their thoughts on the impact that gratitude has on a person’s mindset, the need for positive communication amongst a team, and how leaders can transform their organizations with vision, belief, passion, and purpose.

Post Malone, singer and founder of hemp and cannabis brand Shaboink, announced a new product: American-grown hemp pre-rolls. Global superstar Post Malone, founder of hemp and cannabis brand Shaboink, announced today the launch of American-grown hemp pre-rolls by Shaboink through a strategic partnership with Icon Farms and world-renowned cultivator Mario Guzman, founder of designer cannabis brand Sherbinskis. Shaboink’s new line of hemp pre-rolls are enhanced with a proprietary terpene flavor profile -- “Posty OG," custom-made for Malone by Guzman -- and are manufactured using only American-grown hemp, plant-derived terpenes and water. In addition to partnering with Shaboink, Icon Farms also worked with Guzman to launch American-grown hemp pre-rolls by Sherbinskis, infused with the cannabis icon’s world-famous “Gelato” terpene blend.

That's why Google's updates have been good for businesses, in the improvement in the quality of search results they provide users, and in the emphasis they place on businesses providing quality content in exchange for the online exposure they receive. These Google penalties can send a site plummeting down the search result rankings, crippling its standing and ability to generate business.A “Google penalty” is a loose term for what happens when a site or page is negatively impacted by a Google algorithm update or is manually penalized for an infringement on the search engine's Webmaster Guidelines. To do this, check sites, like Search Engine Roundtable, which discuss new Google updates and related rumors.

Many wholesale growers are focusing on cannabis quality, though market forces tend to favor those who reliably supply low-cost cannabis. Many wholesale cannabis growers choose to compete on quality, even while market forces favor growers who can reliably supply low-cost cannabis. While there may be an immediate opportunity for growers to specialize in and provide low-cost product if and when marijuana is legalized at the federal level, all but the largest and most efficient cultivators ultimately may be squeezed out of the market for value cannabis. That creates a proverbial tightrope for cultivators to walk: They need to understand that meeting the current needs of the market for low-cost cannabis could come at a huge price if a major shake-up -- such as federal legalization -- occurs.

With a background in food and sustainability, Cullen set out on a mission to partner with women entrepreneurs, scientists and farmers. Cullen sat down with Entrepreneur Network partner Jessica Abo to talk about her business, how she has created a robust community around her brand and shares her advice on how you can, too. Entrepreneur Network is a premium video network providing entertainment, ewitducation and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Watch video from our network partners on demand on Roku, Apple TV and the Entrepreneur App available on iOS and Android devices.

Until you can address the problem, you can try to recapture people who abandon their carts with automated email marketing messages. Identify those groups and pairings, then set up accompanying automated email marketing messages that go out when a customer purchases a product. If subscribers on your email marketing list aren’t opening your messages, then you likely don't them on your list. If you only send one message per month, then setting up a re-engagement message to go to any subscribers who have not opened a message from you in six or 12 months is reasonable.

My focus has shifted toward enabling companies to leverage emerging technologies, like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), to create impactful, engaging employee experiences for every member of their workforce. Beyond creating fairness and equity across diverse groups, organizations should aim to create similarly exceptional employee experiences across the entire workforce. Everything we do at work -- the kinds of projects we excel in, the things that motivate and engage us -- leaves data breadcrumbs that enable our leaders to give us the kind of employee experience we want and best thrive in. How will you bring your areas of focus on diversity and inclusion concepts together with the employee experience as you look for ways technology can disrupt the way we work?

The stock is up 7.71 percent in the last five days and 55.62 percent on the year -- one of the best returns on the Entrepreneur Index™ this year. The Entrepreneur Index™ is down 0.14 percent in the last five days while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes are down 0.29 percent and 0.04 percent respectively. Besides Netflix's big drop, Amazon was also down 1.83 percent in the last week while Alphabet Inc. was up 0.29 percent and Facebook gained 0.56 percent. The stock is up more than 40 percent since early June though still down 23.8 percent on the year.

Entrepreneur Network partner Phil Town says that the higher the stock market capitalization-to-GDP ratio is, the more confident you can be in saying that the market is overpriced, which can make it difficult to find value. To find success in pricey times, Phil Town recommends a few tips. Entrepreneur Network is a premium video network providing entertainment, ewitducation and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Watch video from our network partners on demand on Roku, Apple TV and the Entrepreneur App available on iOS and Android devices.

These classes prep you for the toughest tests in IT Project Management. Project managers who specialize in IT are even more valuable — and you can become one with The Complete IT Project Management Certification Bundle. PRINCE2 is the world’s most widely used project management methodology. The Complete IT Project Management Certification Bundle usually costs $796, but right now it’s on sale for $29 (96 percent off).

This feature-rich vape takes your smoking game to the next level. Vaping has gained such immense popularity over recent years that now the question is no longer whether or not you vape, but what you use to vape. However you choose to vape is entirely up to you, but if you'd like to take your smoking to the next level, look no further than the Hera 2. Dubbed as the world's most advanced dual-use vaporizer, the Hera 2 delivers the ideal vaping experience.

Cannabis investment opportunities are vast, and mostly brand new to even veteran investors. Cannabis touches many verticals on which investors can focus their attention, and the investment opportunities are vast. That said, a tried-and-true method of risk management is to invest in a diversified portfolio of these assets, so you do not need to limit your investment to just one aspect of the industry. Always consider how each investment fits in the grand scheme of your overarching investment portfolio, and apply your same procedures for evaluation and due diligence as you would any speculative investment.

Plus, there is a new pet-friendly app that will pick up you and your dog, and there's a startup putting a new spin on laundry and dry cleaning. SpotOn, a mobile app available on the iPhone and Android, makes it easy to hail a ride even with your pet.2ULaundry is a service for outsourcing laundry and dry cleaning needs. The business offers three service,s ranging from washing and folding clothes to dry cleaning and pressing.

The employees in this space work on projects far outside Uber’s core ride-hailing business -- they’re designing and developing self-driving vehicles, plans for aviation sharing, and the company’s JUMP bikes and scooters.“I’m on the New Mobility team, and my role is to make sure bikes, scooters, and charging infrastructure are reliable before they go out into the field. Last week, someone on my extended team said he was having a bad day, so I biked a mile with him, sat and looked at the bay, then biked back.”“I signed up for a bike ride with the Uber cycling team, the AIDS Life Cycle, and it’s 545 miles over seven days.

“When you want the absolute best chance to succeed at anything you want, your approach should always be the same,” he writes in his 2013 book, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, “‘Going small’ is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. Once you have a clear goal, it’s time to further narrow your focus.“It is common to complain about the constraints in our lives: too little time, not enough money, too small of a network, barely enough resources,” writes Clear. Consider that “one thing” that will move you forward and then draw a time boundary around your work.

When it came time for Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter to convince General Motors execs that the eighth generation of the iconic sports car needed a mid-engine configuration, he had his work cut out for him. Corvette’s original chief engineer, Zora Arkus-Duntov, famously advocated for mid-engine vehicles, but we needed to make sure we kept Corvette true to its roots of attainable performance. Our design and engineering teams did an excellent job, working together to create a mid-engine vehicle that still looks like a Corvette, while providing even more performance and functionality. Every Corvette has been inspired by the aircraft of the era, and this new Corvette continues that tradition.

While commanding special forces missions over the past decades, Erickson had to quickly learn how to find reliable partners that wanted to help him succeed, and avoid bad partners that wanted him to die. Were those successes one-sided or did both partners do well?I’m looking for a long-term trustworthy partner and I want him to be looking for the same thing."That's what I want in a partner.

Green’s team looked at blood flow as a measure of brain cell activity when people were doing creative tasks. As people age, the number of creative ideas that come to them doesn’t necessarily slow, but they tend to capture fewer of them.“Capture now, evaluate later,” says Epstein, who says his research has shown over and over again that capturing your new ideas is likely the most valuable aspect of boosting creativity. That’s because challenges act as a catalyst for us to think creatively and come up with simultaneous ideas or solutions.

Even small things feel like work. If you don’t decide what matters in advance, you’ll spend it all doing things that aren’t moving you forward.I constantly outline my goals and dreams in a document called “Creating the life I want.” I make sure I set those goals for myself (not others), identify the actions that will get me there, and schedule them each week. This may be uncomfortable at first, and it will still feel like work sometimes.

A new bonus depreciation deduction: Instead of letting property owners to deduct only 50 percent of your furniture and equipment, the new tax law now allows owners to deduct 100 percent of expenses for personal property and land improvements used for business.A new pass-through deduction: Landlords who own a property as a business entity (Sole Proprietorship, S-Corp, C-Corp) may be able to deduct 20 percent of their rental property net income as a result of the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Rental property insurance deduction: As a rental property owner, you can deduct your insurance costs. This limit does not apply for real estate taxes related to vacation rentals with respect to the percentage of the days rented, as this converts the taxes from personal taxes to business taxes.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Kate Volman discusses the impact that having an accountability partner can have on your goals. Entrepreneur Network is a premium video network providing entertainment, education and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Watch video from our network partners on demand on Amazon Fire, Roku, Apple TV and the Entrepreneur App available on iOS and Android devices. Click here to become a part of this growing video network.

Thanks to the Buddha Beans CBD-Infused Whole Coffee Beans, you can now enjoy the benefits of cannabidiol through your morning cuppa Joe. The bag is filled to the brim with beans injected with 100 percent organic, non-GMO CBD that was extracted naturally from USA-grown hemp. These organic Mexico single-origin coffee beans offer a smooth, mellow roast with low acidity. Make your mornings more relaxed with the Buddha Beans CBD-Infused Whole Coffee Beans.

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Oakland follows San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts in banning the facial recognition technology because of possible misuse. Examples of these instances include the New York Police Department apprehending a suspect and placing him in a lineup solely on the basis of a face recognition search, sheriffs in Florida who arrested a suspect based on facial recognition while the "only corroboration was the officers' review of the photograph, presented as the 'most likely' match," and a Metro Police Department officer in Washington, D.C. printing out a "possible match" from a facial recognition system and presenting it to the witness for confirmation. In a report (PDF), Oakland's Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick said that while the Oakland Police department does not have any facial recognition technology and does not plan to acquire it, an outright ban could hinder law enforcement."Staff does believe that Oakland's current surveillance technology provides adequate thresholds for reviewing any possible future requests to test or purchase [facial recognition technology]," Kirkpatrick said.

Jim Belushi has been building a cannabis business in Oregon for several years but now that his home state of Illinois will allow sales of recreational pot in 2020 he’s expanding where his roots are. Belushi plans to bring a new strain, named The Blues Brothers after film and band that his brother, comedian John Belushi, made famous along with comedian Dan Ackroyd, first to the market in Illinois. He’s been farming marijuana in Oregon the last few years, selling his cannabis under the Belushi’s Private Vault and Captain Jack brands. Last year, Belushi told KGW News, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Oregon, that the cannabis business is more than a hobby for him.

Some customers received alerts from their banks about the charges or had their credit cards put on hold. Uber says the issue has been resolved and apologized for the problems caused, reports the Washington Post: "We understand that this has been frustrating. The inflated fares will be corrected to the right amount, so customers don't need to call their bank to dispute the charges. However, customers aren't happy about the charges or about Uber's lackluster customer service response:

In the second quarter, Netflix lost 123,000 U.S. subscribers, which totaled at 60.1 million. The company's international subscriber count also failed to reach Netflix's forecasts, going up by only 2.8 million, as opposed to the projected 5 million."The drop in U.S. subscribers suggests that viewers on lower pricing tiers dropped Netflix as a result of the price increase," eMarketer analyst Eric Haggstrom said in an email. Despite the down numbers, Netflix is optimistic subscriber growth will pick up and result in the addition of 7 million new subscribers in the third quarter.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. John Paul DeJoria, founder of tequila maker Patron Spirits Company and co-founder of hair care company John Paul Mitchell Systems and ROKiT Phones, talks about how his experience selling encyclopedias door-to-door prepared him to deal with rejection and still stay inspired, as well as how he incorporates giving back into his companies and life. The pair also cover their approach to surrounding themselves with the right people and one of John Paul’s newest ventures, ROKiT Phones. Related: How Does Your Physiology Affect Your Performance as an Entrepreneur?

Speaking of schedules, one of the most important distinctions between a new freelance writer and an existing one is the amount of time spent on marketing activities vs. the time spent doing client work. In the beginning of your freelance writing business, you’ll spend approximately 80 percent of your time marketing the business and only 20 percent or less completing client projects. One of the easiest ways to stay on top of your marketing goals in your freelance business is to make a time-based commitment or a pitch-based commitment. While it might be exciting to think about the prospect of sending 50 pitches in a week or carving out 15 hours in your schedule to market your freelance writing business, far too many new freelancers shoot for the moon and are never able to keep up with the rigorous schedule they’ve established.

Former NFL player Tafa Jefferson launched a business to provide care to senior citizens. In 2006, he shuttered his registry business and started Amada Senior Care with business partner Chad Fotheringham a year later. Today, Amada Senior Care has more than 130 franchised locations across the country, continuously attracting the attention of potential franchisees, the medical industry, and clients, all of whom craved a reliable brand name in the space. We teach our franchise partners how to provide a total solution for care -- placement services if affordable senior housing is needed, in-home placement, and technology that can help families keep tabs on mom and dad.

Social media has created a beautiful opportunity for entrepreneurs: It’s never been easier to get your message in front of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people. Related: The 5 Things Entrepreneurs Should Never Post on Social MediaIn the digital world, there are many ways to acquire customers: paid social, paid search, email acquisition, organic social, organic search (earning traffic through content), public relations, influencer marketing, and earned media. This way, the traffic was technically “free” -- and so were the added emails, which we could now upload to social media platforms and directly sell to consumers with ads based on their known interests.

With so many new sales tools flooding the market, growing companies struggle to distinguish the genuinely helpful from the borderline useless. Owners of growing companies should think less about what potential sales tools can do and more about how to use technology to simplify the customer journey. Regie, a tool that automates sales busywork to create more meetings with qualified leads, helps businesses skip the noise and spend more time on sales-relevant activities. In an era where consumers have become accustomed to doing business on their time, always-on tools play a big role in sales success.

For instance, instead of referring to someone as a “disabled person” you could describe them as a person with a disability. Chances are that someone within earshot when this kind of language is uttered is, in fact, impacted personally or through loved ones by the disability at the root of the stigmatizing words. At Galt, a staffing agency for people with a wide range of disabilities, we spend a full day educating new in-house employees about the American with Disabilities Act, various types of disabilities, and etiquette for working with individuals with disabilities. Finally, go beyond simply sharing some tips such as those listed above by carving out the time to educate your line managers and work teams about person-first language and etiquette for individuals with disabilities.

And with so many people eager to learn about this young and burgeoning space, cannabis documentaries are popping up all over the place, helping to educate the masses on everything from medicinal marijuana and the business behind cannabis to legislative issues and cultural phenomena. If you’re looking to learn more about the wide world of cannabis, here are seven cannabis documentaries that you have to watch!It’s a great place to start when looking at cannabis documentaries, taking viewers through a deep look into cannabis prohibition in North America. Grass is Greener provides a balanced look at cannabis, considering both legislative issues and pop culture phenomena, and is one of the latest documentaries to dive into cannabis.

This chart shows how much you need to save per year if you plan on having $1 million for retirement (age 65). The chart below shows the impact of excessive annual fees. Then we show the impact of fees on that same investment. How does one know how much they are actually paying given that the Department of Labor says over $17 Billion is lost in hidden fees each year (somehow hiding fees is legal, which is another discussion for another time)?

The change has created both opportunities and challenges in all areas of freight, but most notably, licensed freight brokers are experiencing a disruption in how they do business. However, the business potential for brokers is not an easy grab -- individuals in the industry need to know what it takes to create a successful, competitive business from the start. The first step is getting licensed and trained in the business of freight brokering while creating valuable business relationships and partnership that allow for easy connection to potential customers. One of the requirements to become a freight broker is securing a freight brokerage bond or a trust fund, both which offer protection against bad business practices and future claims against the business.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Jeff Rose discusses a few negative financial habits that people in their twenties should avoid:Entrepreneur Network is a premium video network providing entertainment, education and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders. We provide expertise and opportunities to accelerate brand growth and effectively monetize video and audio content distributed across all digital platforms for the business genre. Watch video from our network partners on demand on Roku, Apple TV and the Entrepreneur App available on iOS and Android devices.

Since the launch of our SEED program in 2018, I’ve worked with ONE Cannabis to establish a social equity model that empowers applicants with the experience and capital necessary to realistically build out a profitable dispensary. As we sought out community leaders, social equity advocates and applicants alike, it became clear that most media coverage glossed over key pieces of what motivates these people to believe that social equity -- and cannabis-- could be a pathway to a successful, independent ownership of a business. People were affected by the War on Drugs in different ways -- not every social equity applicant has a record. ONE Cannabis is not the first company to offer its services to social equity applicants.

Over half of consumers, according to a data roundup by Bradley Shaw, have used voice search to find local business information within the last year, and a quarter (27 percent) actually went on to visit the company’s website after conducting a voice search. However, certain ranking factors (i.e., the factors that determine how high a web page ranks on Google’s search engine results page) do guide voice searches the most. According to research by my own company, SEMRush, nearly 80 percent of the answers voice assistants provided for our searches ranked among the top three organic results, and 97 percent of the answers provided by Google Assistant ranked among the top 10 organic results. In some cases, answers for Google Home voice searches have a page speed 10 times faster than the rest of the options found on the first page, making page speed one of the biggest factors in ranking for voice search.

Whether it's fleeting, in-the-moment stress or elevated, long-term stress, it’s important to find healthy techniques that allow your mind and body to unwind, relax and regroup. After acknowledging my own levels of stress and its effects on my health, I started implementing four simple concepts into my daily life that helped reduce stress while improving my focus, productivity and creativity. The breath is the best method to shift away from whatever thoughts may be causing you to feel stressed or anxious, and back into the present moment, where you can take effective action from a more peaceful state of mind. By working towards implementing each of these four ideas into your daily life, you will start to find yourself managing stressful situations with more ease of being and increased mental clarity.

You're far more likely to succeed if your business disrupts an existing industry rather than starts a new industry from scratch. Sometimes, though,  business size creates an environment where customers or users lose control over the business’s product. Monkey -- a new social media app that grew more than 1,200 percent in 2017, (as Inc. reported) -- believes that other social media platforms have failed to adapt to the needs of a growing market. Consumers don’t like that business model very much: According to Pew Research Center, 91 percent of Americans surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that consumers have lost control over how their personal data is collected and used by social media companies, and a shocking 80 percent of people expressed concern about what they saw as flippant use of their personal information.

In fact, half a century ago, that word came into vogue as America diligently worked toward not just safely putting a man on the moon but bringing him home in one piece. Then, someone devised the concept of creating a main unit that would orbit the moon, allowing the lunar landing module to descend independently to the moon’s surface and return to the docked unit. That way, the Apollo craft never had to take off from the moon’s surface, making a return trip far easier to accomplish. Make the effort to keep all team members up to speed at regular intervals with a series of progress reports, group meetings or any mechanism that works for your particular company.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Mars Discovery District speaks with Carlo Perez about when he realized he could achieve more than his current positions in tech. Entrepreneur Network is a premium video network providing entertainment, education and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders. We provide expertise and opportunities to accelerate brand growth and effectively monetize video and audio content distributed across all digital platforms for the business genre. Watch video from our network partners on demand on Roku, Apple TV and the Entrepreneur App available on iOS and Android devices.

Mike is a serial entrepreneur, 13-time No. During our session, which can be booked on Entrepreneur's Ask an Expert platform, he helped me develop a plan to increase my revenue and spend more time with my family. Thats why for the next 10 weeks I'll be sharing my progress towards goals Mike and I outlined via Entrepreneur. com and Instagram. Each week, we'll share posts from various participants on Entrepreneur's Instagram.

Imagine spending time creating an awesome video for your email marketing campaign, only to find out that your email messages aren’t even getting opened. If you want your email subscribers to watch the videos in your emails, you first need to let them know they’re there by adding the word “video” to your email subject lines. So, instead of having users click a link that leads them to a landing page to watch your video -- an extra step -- embed the video directly into your email. Many email marketing services make it easy to embed video directly in your emails.

Kevin Curry, author and founder of the 2 million+ member community Fit Men Cook, talks about his unexpected pivot in lifestyle and business. When you meet the high-energy and hilarious fitness author and expert Kevin Curry, it is hard to imagine the vastly different version of himself that existed not so long ago. As he describes on his website Fit Men Cook, "I went to a half-price book store, bought every single book about dieting and started studying nutrition."Curry, who worked as a manager and analyst at Dell, is now the head of Fit Men Cook, an online nutrition, fitness, health and wellness community that has over 2 million followers around the world.

To waste your precious time searching for previously-visited webpages is a major time-suck, productivity killer, and just an all-around shame. History Search wants to relieve you of that frustration and save hours of your time by helping you find webpages, important articles, emails, and more quickly and effortlessly. Whether you're looking for a specific website as a resource or your own online document on Google Docs, History Search reunites you with it. History Search also works on any popular browser and syncs your history and favorites across all browsers and devices, making your life infinitely easier.

The Elon Musk-backed company claims its "sewing machine-like" robot will be able to implant threads deep into a human brain. According to the article, its bundles of flexible threads are about one quarter the diameter of a human hair, implanted using needles to avoid blood vessels on the brain's surface.A neurosurgeon is also part of the presentation, showing off some videos of the implantation technology, and how its robot can install thousands of wires directly into the brain while avoiding tissue damage and bleeding. Less surprising is his assertion that two people with the implants could use them to communicate "telepathically" -- once the technology is working two-ways in the brain that's about what we'd expect.

Watch this free Entrepreneur Insider session with digital marketing expert Terry Rice, who explains how to tell stories that will drive sales. Leveraging best practices from design thinking, digital marketing expert Terry Rice will teach you how to understand why people choose to buy from your brand -- or a similar brand -- and how to tell stories that will engage other prospects to do the same. Entrepreneur Insider is a community created by the editors of Entrepreneur magazine, which is dedicated to helping its members grow their businesses and achieve their goals. We’ll do that by connecting you with the smartest entrepreneurs and experts, providing access to critical resources and creating a network of peers that can help you stay on track.