An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

There's so much happening with the youth looking at local or national problems and solving them with innovation and technology. This is what startup success means.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

I think as we all work to learn and navigate the future towards a world where AI fulfills its promise, the best way to do that is to work together and to share information and learn together. It'll speed up our ability to get ahead of this so that we can do a better job of setting our associates up for success.

If everyone is moving forward together then success takes care of itself.