Category: Business

The hardest trick in children’s publishing, according to author Greg Soros, isn’t writing a mirror or a window on its own. It’s getting a single story to do both at the same time, for two different readers, without either function crowding out the other. Soros has spent sixteen years chasing that balance. A story built…

For decades, facelift patients had to choose between a younger look and a natural one. Traditional techniques stretched skin tight, often leaving behind the stiff, wind-tunnel appearance long associated with cosmetic surgery. Dr. Andrew Jacono, a New York facial plastic surgeon, changed that equation with an approach that rebuilds the face’s underlying architecture instead of…

Vancouver Innovation and the Cross-Border Outlook of Yazan Al Homsi Vancouver’s position within Canada’s technology economy has made the city a natural home for investors looking beyond traditional industries. Yazan Al Homsi is one example of a venture capitalist using Vancouver as a base while maintaining an investment perspective that extends into international markets. A…

Kelcy Warren built one of the largest energy infrastructure networks in the country by starting small and thinking big. In 1996, Warren and co-founder Ray Davis launched Energy Transfer as a modest intrastate natural gas pipeline operator in East Texas, running about 200 miles of pipe. Nearly three decades later, the company Kelcy Warren helped…

A facelift that fades within a few years frustrates patients and surgeons alike. Longevity is often the real measure of whether a technique succeeds, and it is where Dr. Andrew Jacono’s extended deep-plane method stands apart from more conventional options. Structure Over Stretch Standard SMAS facelifts tighten the tissue layer beneath the skin and trim…

Among the qualities Michael Polk Newell Brands has identified as central to CEO effectiveness, the ability to make sharp choices stands alongside accessibility and authenticity. Over four decades in executive leadership, Polk developed a framework for decision-making that holds across company types from the complexity of leading Newell Brands to the focused environment of running…

Before joining Implus LLC in 2020, Michael Polk was the kind of executive most people associate with scale. He served as CEO of Newell Brands from 2011 to 2019, leading an organization of over 50,000 people through a complex transformation from a holding company model to a streamlined operating structure. That job, and the decades…

Selecting a wealth manager is rarely framed as a diagnostic exercise. It should be, according to Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut. Gold has spent more than two decades working with business owners and multigenerational families, and he has identified a consistent failure mode: families evaluate advisors on superficial signals while…

A career spanning more than four decades has taken Michael Polk from the executive suites of Kraft and Unilever to the top job at Newell Brands and, ultimately, to the smaller but no less demanding world of private equity-backed business leadership. Each transition has shaped Polk’s understanding of what it means to lead effectively and…

Trust in a surgical technique comes from two distinct directions: patients seeking natural outcomes and surgeons who assess methods on clinical grounds. When both groups converge on the same practitioner independently, it suggests something beyond effective self-promotion. Dr. Andrew Jacono occupies that position in facial plastic surgery, having earned notable public endorsements from well-known figures…