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“I make sure I work out at least three times a week—usually first thing when I wake up," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Arnold Schwarzenegger in an online Facebook Q&A session in 2015. The tech tycoon also practices MMA fighting, ran a sub-20-minute 5K, earned a gold medal for Brazilian jujitsu, and completed an intensive CrossFit strength circuit in honor of a Navy SEAL. The CEO often posts on Facebook and Instagram when he crushes an exercise. Here's the intense exercise routine that got Mark Zuckerberg in fighting shape. bit.ly/3Y0bybl

You may be confusing your boss's abuse as “tough love.” bit.ly/3WjgIh6 According to a study published in this month’s issue of the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, employees tended to think a high-performing boss could boost their own career—reproachful behavior notwithstanding. “If someone is a good performer, we almost have this halo effect, or you assume that they have all these other positive traits particularly associated with leadership, which goes directly in the face of an abusive leader,” lead study author Robert Lount, PhD, an Ohio State professor of management and human resources, tells Fortune. Read more: bit.ly/3WjgIh6

“Statistically speaking, each of you already has five Ikea coffee cups at home.” In a heated staff meeting otherwise filled with safety and pay concerns, Tesla plant manager Andre Thierig was troubled by the tens of thousands of coffee mugs that he said have gone missing from the factory, German state-owned broadcaster DW reported citing an audio recording obtained by Handelsblatt, a German business daily. “We’ve bought 65,000 coffee mugs since we started production here. 65.000!” Thierig told Tesla factory workers, DW reported. bit.ly/462hdzo

“It’s been a real privilege to be able to get to know Warren and get to learn from him.” In an interview with Fortune at the 2015 Most Powerful Women Summit, General Motors CEO Mary Barra shared the best way to secure Warren Buffett’s “vote of confidence.” “As we were going through the challenges last year, he was great at affirming, that our strategy to do the right thing for the customer, do it right, do it fast, and correct the situation, was absolutely right,” Barra said. bit.ly/3W0FVf9

Intuit will tell approximately 1,800 of its global employees—10% of its workforce—they will be leaving the company. But leadership says the move isn’t to cut costs. Sasan Goodarzi, CEO of the Fortune 500 company, which offers products like QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and TurboTax, wrote an internal email to employees, seen by Fortune, announcing the “very difficult decisions my leadership team and I have made.” Goodarzi explains that Intuit’s transformation journey, including departing from the 1,800 employees, is part of its strategy to increase investments in priority focus areas of AI and generative AI, such as its GenAI-powered financial assistant called Intuit Assist, and reimagining its products from traditional workflows to AI-native experiences. The strategy also focuses on money movement, mid-market expansion for small businesses, and international growth. bit.ly/4cVAvZK

Less than a year after critics were calling for David Solomon to step down from Goldman Sachs, the once maligned investment bank is now considered a “big success” under its CEO, according to an analyst note. Shares of Goldman Sachs are up about 21% year- to-date and have gained nearly 53% since the end of October, according to a July 7 research note from Devin Ryan, managing director and senior research analyst at Citizens JMP. This beats the S&P 500, which has risen about 17% so far this year and is up 33% since October. Goldman’s global banking & markets, or GBM, unit has gained more market share than any large bank peer, while the bank has significantly grown its durable revenue streams. The stock has appreciated 106% since Solomon’s first day as CEO on October 1, 2018, Ryan said in the note. bit.ly/4eWAWoa

"You don't have to be a therapist to everyone you lead, but you have to care about who they are as humans," Brené Brown tells Fortune in an exclusive interview. After speaking with countless Fortune 500 executives, Brown says that irrespective of industry, leaders want to live more courageously but don’t know how. “We know that courage is teachable, observable, and measurable, but we also know that for the change to be lasting, we need to go deeper," says Brown, a New York Times bestselling author on shame and vulnerability and a research professor at the University of Houston. Here's what it looks like to lead with resilience and courage: bit.ly/4czv1UC

“I learned everything I needed to know to be a CEO when I was little.” TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett, said last year at the commencement speech of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s MBA program. During childhood, Duckett built the skill that she claims to be central to her success: her character. “My purpose is fueled by my ownable asset—my character. Character is what drives it all,” she said, adding that she emphatically believes her purpose in life is to “inspire and make impact.” Duckett is currently one of only two Black women serving as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. And while character is an enduring virtue, the same can’t be said for our jobs. bit.ly/4eUFGL7

Much of the discussion on the upcoming U.S. presidential election revolves around issues of age: Donald Trump is 78 and Joe Biden is 81. That begs a question: Just what is the perfect age to be president—or any high-stakes leader, for that matter? That’s a question that has been well-studied by many scholars over the years, Dr. John Rowe, a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health professor of health policy and aging, tells Fortune. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to pinpoint an ideal number. Read more: bit.ly/4bAOUcC

United Airlines Holdings Inc. says another of its Boeing Co. aircraft lost a main landing gear wheel while taking off Monday, a near repeat of an incident in March that helped trigger a federal safety review of the carrier. No one was injured on United Flight 1001, a United spokesman said in an email. The Boeing 757-200 that took off from Los Angeles about 7:16 a.m. local time and landed at Denver International Airport at 10:10 a.m. The wheel was found in Los Angeles, United said, without providing details. There have been no reported injuries among people on the ground or the 174 passengers and seven crew on the plane, it said. There are four wheels on each of the plane’s two main landing gears. United shares fell 0.4% Monday. They have gained 13.5% year to date. bit.ly/3XRPNKJ