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What is power? Introducing the 2025 #Fortune100MostPowerful People in Business List. For the second time, Fortune ranked the leaders who are running the business world today and shaping what it will look like tomorrow. This list measures power and influence—and though net worth is a factor, we’re much more concerned with a leader’s ability to shape the thoughts and actions of those around them. What you will find here are the 100 people who are running the business world today—and shaping what it looks like tomorrow. Top leaders include: ➡️ Jensen Huang and CEO, NVIDIA ➡️ Satya Nadella, CEO and Chairman, Microsoft ➡️ Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Chairman, and Founder, Meta ➡️ Elon Musk, CEO and Cofounder, and other roles, Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and others ➡️ Wang Chuanfu, CEO, Chairman, and Founder, BYD 🔗 See who made the full list here: https://lnkd.in/eyd5kDBD

In today’s luxury housing market, it’s become increasingly difficult to sell for what the homeowner might think the home is worth—and even high-profile sellers have been forced to drop prices on their megamansions. Because home prices and mortgage rates remain elevated, buyers are scrutinizing their purchases now more than ever. Plus, in several luxury housing markets, extra “mansion taxes” are tacked on, making purchasing costs even more expensive. So to woo prospective buyers, sellers are trying a new tactic: offering up sleepovers in their mansions to help seal the deal. Julian Johnston, a real estate agent with The Corcoran Group in Miami, said this is a trend he’s seeing more frequently in today’s luxury market as sellers and agents are forced to become more open to creative strategies like pricing adjustments and unique marketing campaigns to stand out. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eG7AXyUF

Ever since the pandemic, American workers have clung to their remote schedules for as long as possible as CEOs drag their staffers back into the office. Loving the freedom that comes with flexible schedules, some have even pushed for four-day workweeks—but for one tiny European nation, that dream’s already a reality. Workers in the Netherlands between the ages of 20 and 64 worked an average of 32.1 hours per week in 2024, according to data from Eurostat. The country has the highest rate of shorter workweeks in Europe, followed by Austria, Germany and Denmark, all with around 34-hour workweeks. In contrast, Americans employed full-time worked an average of 42.9 hours weekly in 2024, according to a Gallup poll—and that’s actually an improvement from 2019, when U.S. staffers clocked in 44.1 hours weekly. And it’s not only North Americans putting on the grind, as over a third of employed people in the EU spent nearly 40 to 45 hours on the job weekly last year, according to the Eurostat data. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ewFUGqnr

Over half of professionals report that AI trainings feel like a second job, according to a recent LinkedIn survey, highlighting widespread frustration among workers with the proliferation of workplace automation programs. A majority of respondents (51%) expressed a sentiment about the intensity and frequency of AI training requirements being excessive, stating that it’s interfering with their core job responsibilities and contributing to burnout. Employees cited dense training modules, unrealistic deadlines, and a lack of clarity about practical benefits as key sources of dissatisfaction. LinkedIn found an 82% increase in people posting on the platform about feeling overwhelmed and navigating change this year. “The mounting pressure to upskill in AI is fueling insecurity among professionals at work — with a third (33%) admitting they feel embarrassed by how little they understand it, and 35% saying they feel nervous talking about AI at work for fear of sounding uninformed,” LinkedIn wrote. Read more: https://lnkd.in/egDdPD2e

“Our magic sauce is that we can create ideas out of nowhere and blow them up.” As celebrity-founded brands become an obsession in Hollywood, where a billion-dollar valuation is the hot new status symbol, BEACH HOUSE GROUP has carved out a niche as a startup factory. It’s part of a growing number of brand incubators that help celebrities turn great ideas into very real businesses by connecting them with capital, experienced executives, and back-end resources. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ebDDfBH8

The job-hopper and the job-hugger: Two distinct species, with one going into hibernation as the other emerges. Bank of America’s latest research shows that the era of the job-hopper—once the defining labor market species during the pandemic’s Great Resignation—is quickly vanishing. The job-hopper’s day was 2022, BofA finds, and even though it doesn’t use the phrase, the report constitutes additional evidence that 2025 is the heyday of the “job-hugger.” Consulting firm Korn Ferry found earlier this month that the careers climate of 2025 has workers holding on to their jobs “for dear life.” This analysis followed a shocking jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for July, which massively revised downward earlier estimates of jobs growth in May and June. Beyond President Trump immediately firing the head of the bureau, it confirmed an economy with minuscule jobs growth. “Given just all the activity that happened post-COVID and then some of these constant layoffs, people are waiting and sitting in seats and hoping that they have more stability,” Korn Ferry managing consultant Stacy DeCesaro previously told Fortune about the rise of job-huggers. “No one is wanting to leave unless they’re very unhappy or miserable in their job or just feel so unsettled by the company.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/ef4tYaSM

“I remember the moment this even became a possibility.” You never know when your big break will come knocking. For Julie Sweet it came just a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2014, during a regular one-to-one with her boss—then-CEO of Accenture, Pierre Nanterme. “At the end of the meeting, he closes his notebook and he pushes it aside, and he says to me, completely out of the blue… ‘I think you could run this place someday,’” Sweet recalled the pivotal moment in her career to Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast with Alyson Shontell. It was a surreal moment for Sweet, who was serving as general counsel at the time and did not fit the mold of a typical CEO: she had a legal background, not a traditional business one, she was a woman in a company historically led by men, and unlike previous leaders, she had not spent her entire career at Accenture. Even her boss admitted that jumping from general counsel to CEO was not a feasible jump, leveling that she would have to “run something else first.” And it set her career in motion toward the top of the ladder, leading the tech consulting firm’s North American practice in 2015, and eventually being named global CEO in 2019. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ezpfejRu

Stanford University has published a first-of-its-kind study on Tuesday that reveals “the AI revolution” is already beginning to have a “significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the U.S. labor market,” especially those aged 22-25 in highly AI-exposed professions like software engineering and customer service. The research, led by Erik Brynjolfsson, a top economist and AI thought leader of sorts, analyzed high-frequency payroll records from millions of American workers, generated by ADP, the largest payroll software firm in the U.S. The analysis revealed a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career workers in the most AI-exposed jobs since the widespread adoption of generative AI tools, “even after controlling for firm-level shocks.” In contrast, employment for older, more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or grown. The study highlighted six facts that Brynjolfsson’s team believe show early and large-scale evidence that fits the hypothesis of a labor-market earthquake headed for Gen Z. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e6YrqQ2J

"These corrective actions will be painful for many households but are necessary to head off the risk of a fiscal crisis, whereby an abrupt, large decline in Treasury demand relative to supply sparks a sharp, sustained increase in interest rates." https://trib.al/6H6OEiJ

Americans love to keep an imaginary list of life milestones–buy a home, start a family, hit six figures, all complete with age expiration dates. What they don’t realize is that most of the ages they attach to those goals don’t exist. A recent survey from Empower found that the average age Americans think you should land your dream job is at 29, buy your first home at 30, and earn six figures by 35. They also reckon you should be debt-free at 41 and ready to retire at 58—but they’re in for a shock, that’s 6 years earlier than the national average age of retirement. Despite Americans’ optimism, no longer are the days of getting a home on a single income. Gen Z are stuck kicking it with their parents due to skyrocketing living prices, workers are facing a frozen white collar job market with stagnant wages, household debt is at an all-time high amid rising interest rates, and people are draining out their 401(k)s like bank accounts. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eyNuJvKN