Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

ADI IGNATIUS:  I’m Adi Ignatius, and this is the HBR IdeaCast. For the next several weeks, we’re bringing you a view from the C-suite, interviews with leading CEOs across industries and geographies recorded during our recent Future of Business event. Today we’re getting inside the mind of Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who just announced that he’ll be stepping down in a couple of months as the head of the retail giant. Walmart is the world’s largest company by revenue, its biggest private employer, and boasts 255 million customer visits per week. As goes Walmart, so goes the economy. For his…

While the bar was set pretty low early on, the Nets have at least shown improvement on defense after opening the year with some of the worst stats in the league. As Ziaire Williams noted this week, “None of us are cool with being dead last in the league on defense.” It was something the players were aware of and even though wins have been elusive, they are at least not getting run over by opponents lately. After allowing 125 or more points in seven of their first 10 games, they haven’t allowed more than 119 in any of their…

Nadeen Ayoub, the first-ever “Miss Palestine” contestant, is among the final 30 contestants vying for the Miss Universe title — surviving the latest round of the competition hours after The Post exposed her secret marriage to a convicted terrorist’s son. Ayoub has spent the past days and weeks competing in the preliminary competitions to qualify for the final Miss Universe pageant, ultimately gaining enough support to allow her to continue her pursuit of the major international title. Pageant participants are scored on a number of categories — from swimsuit and evening gowns to interviews and platforms — to determine winners.…

Bruce Lee was and remains a worldwide icon who left an amazing legacy. Even today, more than 50 years after his last movie Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee polls just behind Tom Hanks as the all-time most popular actor. Sometimes impactful cultural icons leave a legacy that itself spawns more legacies and ripples a positive echo through time. Bruce Lee’s legacy is represented and shepherded now by his daughter Shannon Lee and her efforts through the nonprofit Bruce Lee Foundation toward making the world a better place through the youth of today. As we’ll see in this brief interview, although…

Rick Pitino has some high praise for the Knicks this season. During an appearance on the “Roommates Show” — a podcast hosted by Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart — on Thursday, the St. John’s head coach said the Knicks are “much better” than they were last season. “I really think that you guys have the potential to do great things this year,” Pitino said while talking to Brunson and co-host Matt Hillman. “This is, in my opinion, a much better team than last year.” Pitino said his opinion does not have anything to do with the coaching changes this offseason,…

Jelly Roll revealed his dramatic clean cut look after shaving his face for the first time in ten years. The country star took to Instagram Thursday to debut the transformation, and joked that the new look makes him resemble a “Ninja Turtle.” “I thought my chin went at least a half inch longer than it actually did, but f—k, I didn’t know. It was a failed science experiment y’all.” Jelly Roll revealed his dramatic clean cut look after shaving his face for the first time in ten years. The country star took to Instagram Thursday to debut the transformation, and…

A raging fire tore through the grounds of the UN climate summit COP30 in Brazil on Thursday, stalling talks as a full-scale evacuation was ordered, officials said. Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation after the inferno broke out near the China pavilion before fanning outwards to other nearby sectors, Brazil’s Tourism Minister Celso Sabino told reporters at the scene. A fire broke out at COP30 in Brazil on Thursday. REUTERS Samuel Rubin, one of the people in charge of an entertainment and culture quadrant, said that other pavilions that were torched included many of the sections set aside for…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, thanks to Bloomingdale’s. The department store unveiled its Burberry-themed holiday windows and façade Wednesday evening in festive fashion, drawing a star-studded crowd that included Alicia Silverstone, Justine Lupe, Lori Harvey and Suni Lee. (Almost all of the celebs in attendance were decked out in Burberry’s signature check, naturally.) The evening culminated with a performance by Raye, who belted out a handful of her hits (including “Where Is My Husband!” and “Worth It.”) along with a jazzy rendition of “Jingle Bells.” Here, see what stars wore to the seasonal shindig. 1 of 11…

The World Health Organization describes wellness as not merely the absence of disease, but rather a state that transcends the absence of disease and approaches optimum psychological, physical, spiritual, and social health. The history of optimizing health dates to the ancient Greeks. The fifth-century B.C. text On Regimen, authored by Hippocrates and his students, is likely the authoritative reference that described specific means of obtaining optimum health. The modern era of wellness can be traced to Jonas Salk’s 1973 groundbreaking treatise, Survival of the Wisest. In that book, Salk defined the pursuit of health in two epochs. Epoch A was…

Shocking video captured the terrifying moment three masked teenage thugs clashed in an English street, wildly swinging 24-inch machetes at one another during a broad-daylight brawl. The chilling footage, recorded by a startled motorist, shows a hoodlum in black repeatedly hacking at another teen with the large blade before the pair spiral into a violent tussle with a third brawler in the middle of the road around 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 in Leeds, according to SWNS. The three assailants, brandishing their weapons, then dashed around in a frantic circle before two of them ran toward an electric bike lying…