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In a newly published full TIME interview, Apple CEO John Ternus discussed his relationship with the company's design teams, saying he has worked closely with industrial designers since joining Apple. He described design as central to Apple's culture, noting that designers and engineers collaborate from the earliest stages rather than working in isolation from one another.
Matt Ebert, CEO of 650-location collision repair chain Crash Champions, has produced about 35 episodes of his podcast, PodCrash with Matt Ebert, featuring conversations on leadership, entrepreneurship and trades. He says the show helps build familiarity with customers before they ever need a repair, and has become an unexpected recruiting tool, with job candidates saying they feel they already know him. Ebert also uses the podcast to highlight that the company's technicians earn more than $100,000 on average and increasingly work with tablets alongside traditional tools.
On the Diary of a CEO podcast, psychologist Leanne ten Brinke told host Steven Bartlett that avoiding eye contact is not a reliable sign of lying. She discussed her research into 'dark tetrad' traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism—and outlined other behavioral cues that can help identify deception and manipulative personalities. Ten Brinke is the author of 'Poisonous People: How to Resist Them and Improve Your Life.'
In a Modern CEO newsletter column, Stephanie Mehta cites a former Harvard Business School dean who has studied chief executives for three decades and concludes the fundamentals of the job have stayed largely the same. The newsletter also touches on how talent agent Ari Emanuel's leadership style differs from typical corporate CEOs.
An opinion piece challenges the common advice given to new CEOs that leadership requires isolation. The author argues that the most effective leaders instead build support networks of trusted peers rather than going it alone, reframing the traditional congratulations-and-condolences framing of taking the top job.
Brian Chesky, Airbnb's cofounder and CEO, says he has largely moved away from email as a communication tool. He said he now favors voice memos, describing them as creating a 'deeper connection' and feeling less like work to respond to than written messages.
Singapore's Formula 1 weekend coincided with more than 40 business conferences this year, up from over 30 in 2024 and over 25 in 2025, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Events included the Milken Institute Asia Summit, TOKEN2049, the Forbes Global CEO Conference and the Solana Summit APAC, while race organizers reported 301,294 spectators, the second-highest attendance in the event's history.
Apple is developing a smart home tablet called HomeView, reportedly overseen by hardware engineering chief John Ternus. The device is positioned as part of Apple's push into the smart home category, an area seen as ready for a fresh approach.
IBM's Institute for Business Value surveyed 2,000 CEOs across 33 countries and found 61% say their organizations are actively adopting or scaling AI agents, including in performance testing. Yet the same study found only 25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected returns and just 16% have scaled enterprise-wide, meaning much of the performance-testing use case remains unproven despite broad adoption intent.
Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy protection and is now seeking a buyer for the company. Disney has reportedly offered $20 million for rights to some of Character.AI's assets, coming weeks after Disney hired the startup's former CEO.
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the coffee chain's recovery is taking hold, attributing the progress to a leadership focus on returning to core operational fundamentals. He framed the strategy as less about product innovation and more about disciplined execution of basics.
In an interview with The Independent, former Apple CEO Tim Cook said he is not meddling in successor John Ternus's work, now focusing instead on global policy and government relations. Cook, who became executive chairman after stepping down in September, said he and Ternus maintain trust and frequent communication, and that he's told Ternus to forge his own leadership style rather than copy him.