In this installment of the 2026 “Ones to Watch” series, Grit Daily partners with Heather Burgett’s Shine Collective to spotlight ten women whose work is shaping what leadership, success, and human potential can look like in the years ahead. Their work reaches into the systems people lead, the careers they build and leave, and the […]
Independent hotels are becoming a more attractive business proposition, even though they enter into what seems like an extremely competitive market. How can a small hotel startup even hope to compete with massive chains like Hilton, Marriott, or IHG? Ironically, it’s the smallness of an independent hotel that can be its biggest USP: travelers want […]
AI is changing how nearly every business operates, and finance is no exception. On Wednesday, October 21, Monk, an AI accounts receivable company, will host Net 30, an applied AI summit on the future of finance in the age of automation, at The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street in New York. The program runs […]
Pastry chef Hanyi Lee is joining Gui Steakhouse & Prime Rib and its chef’s counter, Hwaro, as sous chef this fall. The move brings her into Chef Sungchul Shim’s kitchen after developing her skills at the Michelin-starred Jean-Georges restaurant in Manhattan, where she worked in a demanding fine-dining environment. Lee’s experience includes a major assignment […]
Every office has one. The person with an answer for everything, who gets handed the hard projects because nobody doubts them, whose career everyone assumes is going great. Then they go home and spend an hour talking themselves out of how unhappy they are. That is career indecision, and it shows up in high performers […]
There is a word for what happened to your Uber ride. It is not polite. Merriam-Webster added it to the dictionary anyway. en·shit·ti·fi·ca·tion \ en-ˈshi-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən \ (impolite): the final stage in a process by which a digital platform is gradually modified to maximize shareholder profits while degrading the experience of those who use the platform. […]
Ure Utah is the founder of Bridge Synergy and the technical adviser to the Nigerian Honourable Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology on development finance institutions (DFIs) and international partnerships. Her work aims to push Nigeria forward on the international stage with sustainable development in mind. Pharmaceuticals are a highly competitive and ever-growing industry, and […]
There’s no doubt that historically the global center of startups and venture capital has been Silicon Valley, within a 36-mile radius of Sand Hill Road. Experts often refer to this as the Golden Ticket of venture capital. It was seen as the place where startup founders could thrive, and investors could find deals with amazing […]
For 50 years, Scott Sucher created exact replicas of history’s most famous diamonds in cubic zirconia. The shapes were right. The dimensions were right. The research behind every stone was as rigorous as anything published in a peer-reviewed journal. But the material was not diamond. He knew it. His clients knew it. And there was […]
Aston Farquharson founded NuSpecies, a New York corporation headquartered in Pawling, New York, that makes raw, natural, organic formulas that are 99 percent liquid. He came to the industry from law and enterprise technology, not pharmacy or clinical nutrition. He started as a contracting attorney at Fried Frank, working on global corporate M&A deals, then […]
