Over the next two decades, roughly $124 trillion is expected to change hands in what analysts describe as the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. A growing share of that wealth is moving to women through inheritance, entrepreneurship, and rising lifetime earnings. At the same time, healthcare is confronting another reality: Much of modern medicine was built around male biology. Those two shifts are beginning to collide.

Walking into World Labs—the San Francisco startup cofounded by Fei-Fei Li, known in tech circles as the “godmother of AI”—visitors are met with a wall tiled in rainbow hues. A grand piano beckons at the end of the deep, sunlit lobby. Chair-size iridescent spheres rest against the walls, as if a giant forgot to pick up his toys. But around the corner, the walls and floor look scrambled, like a cubist painting left out in the rain. Luckily, this “world” is just a simulation of the World Labs lobby I’ve built using Marble, the company’s generative AI app.

During the NFL’s 2024 AFC championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs, play was stopped when a drone entered restricted airspace over the stadium. The operator later pleaded guilty to violating national defense airspace. Thirteen months later, a wild-card playoff game featuring the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers was suspended for the same reason. According to the NFL security chief, Cathy Lanier, unauthorized drone incursions over NFL stadiums jumped from 67 in 2018 to 2,845 in 2023—an increase of 42x. For most of that time, the league had almost no legal mechanism to stop them.

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. 

It would be very easy for Ben Blumenrose to buy his nearly 7-year-old daughter a kit to build a Rube Goldberg machine. Instead, he gave her some spent toilet paper rolls, pieces of cardboard, and bits and bobs found around their house. That’s because she’ll need to play, imagine, and pivot with these objects. It’s his way of helping her discover the value of tinkering, an activity that shaped his way of thinking. As a child, he hacked the first video games he bought and figured out how to use his computer to make art. “It was this intersection of design, creativity, technology, and just tinkering,” he says. “That is where I came from.” 

Over the past few years, the social psychologist Ron Friedman has been studying what makes teams successful—really successful—and what high-performing teams do differently.

In today’s business climate, you need to be quick and efficient to keep pace with the competition. The following mandates are commonplace: Do more with less, get results faster, reduce headcount, and leverage artificial intelligence.

The concept of inflatable furniture typically brings to mind a teenager’s room in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Think translucent, cheap, and disposable; built for the short lifespan of a trend phase rather than the long-term needs of an adult furnishing their home. Now, a French furniture manufacturer is upgrading the product category with furniture that blows up—but is durable and aesthetic enough for actual outdoor, backyard seating.

When I moved into a house in upstate New York after years of living in apartments, I decided to get an old-fashioned reel mower—the kind you push yourself, with no engine to help—for the lawn. The exercise seemed like a good idea at the time. But after spending hours each week covering my half-acre lot, I decided to test the other extreme: a robot mower guided by GPS.

Eighteen months ago, most business leaders were still debating whether AI could write a convincingly human-sounding email without hallucinating. Today, artificial intelligence systems are managing codebases, conducting research, screening contracts, and operating as autonomous agents inside enterprise workflows. Some capabilities that senior technologists expected to arrive in three to five years have arrived in months. At the same time, capability scaling in other areas has lagged expectations. No one working seriously in this space is confident they know what the technology will be able to do two years from now—let alone five or 10. Yet strategic decisions, such as investments in infrastructure, evolving business models, or commitments to workforce development, play out over exactly those horizons. Leaders are forced to make long-range choices in an environment in which the technology moves faster than the planning cycle.

The barriers to getting a formal ADHD diagnosis are many: cost, time, the availability of qualified clinicians, a general lack of awareness.

The World Cup arriving on American soil is more than a cultural moment. For U.S. Soccer Federation CEO JT Batson, it’s a launchpad. As group stage matches kick off, Batson reveals what’s on the line for the U.S. men’s team and why this tournament is nothing like the last time America hosted in 1994. And he makes the case that winning a World Cup and growing a soccer nation are the same mission. Whether you’ve got World Cup fever or not, Batson’s vision for building a winning culture from the ground up is a leadership story worth hearing.

The security measure millions rely on to protect their accounts may not be as foolproof as they think.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning the public about a fast-spreading scam targeting users of popular Microsoft 365 products, including Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive. The scheme allows cybercriminals to capture Microsoft authentication tokens, bypassing multifactor authentication without needing a user’s password.

Some of us treat creativity like a reward. Something we’ll fully inhabit once a major milestone is reached or when the weekend comes around. Through years of working with leaders, I’ve realized that this deferral isn’t a personal flaw; it’s an epidemic. And it may be the single biggest drag on organizational performance today.

Are you heads down, cranking out work, staying late, and hitting deadlines? Have you consistently brought major projects in under budget, but no one seems to notice? Are you devoted to your employer, yet aren’t being promoted, and worse, your male peers are?

Being at the forefront of beauty technology has been one of my brand’s greatest superpowers since day one. It has been fundamental to how we disrupted the beauty industry, allowing us to scale expertise, accelerate innovation and move at exponential speed.

When designing the stage for the UFC fights taking place on the White House lawn on Sunday, June 14, there was one nonnegotiable feature: Viewers had to be able to see the White House in all its glory.

When Olympic athletes win, they are often draped in their home country’s flag. Symbols such as flags help unite the masses, reminding individuals of a bigger purpose. The flag of the United States of America is no exception to this rule.

Today, almost anyone who flies a drone must maintain visual contact with it at all times, a practice known as visual line of sight. This requirement severely restricts how far craft can fly. When the Federal Aviation Administration rule changes allowing people to fly their drones beyond visual line of sight are finalized, commercial use is likely to soar.