What Six Leaders Learned From Their Biggest Mistakes Of 2016

These leaders learned how culture solves problems, why not every change is an innovation, and that poaching talent doesn’t always pay. From Volkswagen’s ongoing recovery from its emissions scandal to revelations about Wells Fargo’s fraudulent consumer accounts, 2016 hasn’t been short on corporate mistakes and misbehavior.

Ice rinks across the country fight enemy No. 1: Energy bills

A small community skating rink that was once in danger of folding is working on a long-term plan to eliminate its biggest single expense – its energy bill – by becoming what its leaders believe would be the country’s first with no costs for electricity or heating fuel. The plan includes upgrading the existing equipment at Woodstock’s Union Arena for efficiency, finding ways to reuse some of the heat generated by the power-sucking compressors used to make ice and, finally, buying solar panels that will be erected elsewhere.

WNBA offers players security app for safety overseas

In this June 5, 2016, file photo, Indiana Fever’s Marissa Coleman, left, shoots over Connecticut Sun’s Kelly Faris, right, during the second half of a WNBA basketball game in Uncasville, Conn. The WNBA is offering a security app to its players … to help them stay safer while they are overseas this offseason.

Hedge fund manager rises to prominence as economic advisor to Trump

Anthony Scaramucci, a member of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team executive committee, and founder and co-managing partner of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, talks with media at Trump Tower in New York, N.Y. in November. NEW YORK-For weeks now, Anthony Scaramucci has been seemingly all over the airwaves, talking to the likes of CNBC, Fox and NPR about the virtues of a Donald Trump presidency.