AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 3, 2026--
More than sixty years after four young musicians from Liverpool changed music forever, their story still holds powerful lessons for leaders, teams, and organizations striving for excellence. In The Fab Four Pillars of Impact: Building Dynamic Teams The Beatles’ Way (2/3/2026; Greenleaf Book Group, $27.95), longtime CEO, educator, and coach Dan Absher reframes The Beatles as one of the most instructive and overlooked case studies in organizational success.
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Absher’s lifelong fascination with The Beatles began on February 9, 1964, watching The Ed Sullivan Show as a five-year-old. That moment sparked a decades-long study of enduring excellence that later shaped his 32-year tenure as CEO of Absher Construction and his work teaching leadership, team building, and organizational performance. Following a near-death health crisis and a successful leadership transition through an employee buyout, Absher returned to The Beatles’ story with a fresh perspective, this time as a framework for impact.
In The Fab Four Pillars of Impact, Absher identifies four universal drivers behind The Beatles’ rise, and their eventual unraveling:
Through vivid storytelling, business parallels, and curated playlists, Absher shows how these pillars apply to any team, from startups and nonprofits to multinational organizations, seeking sustained excellence while avoiding the mistakes that derail even the most talented groups.
More than a business book or music history, The Fab Four Pillars of Impact is a blueprint for building legendary teams, grounded in connection, shared purpose, and a commitment to something bigger than individual success.
To learn more about Dan Absher and his work, visit www.fabfouracademy.com.
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"A fun, innovative management guide, based on the story of the world’s most popular band." - Kirkus
MADRID (AP) — Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.
Sánchez chided the world's biggest tech companies in a speech at a Dubai summit for allowing illegal content such as child sex abuse and nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images and videos to proliferate on their platforms, saying that governments also needed to “stop turning a blind eye.”
“Today, our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone," Sánchez said. “We will no longer accept that.”
Spain joins a growing number of countries, including Australia and France, which have taken or are considering measures to restrict minors' access to social media.
In January, France approved a bill banning social media for children under 15, paving the way for the measure to take effect at the start of the next school year in September. The bill would also ban the use of mobile phones in high schools.
Australia has started implementing the world's first social media ban for under-16s, after its government passed a measure that holds platforms including TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for failing to prevent children from having accounts.
Denmark has introduced similar legislation to ban access to social media for users under 15, while the U.K. said last month it would consider banning young teenagers from social media, as it tightens laws designed to protect children from harmful content and excessive screen time.
Sánchez said that Spain would require social media companies to enforce the ban with age verification systems, “not just check boxes, but real barriers that work."
Many social media apps require users to be at least 13, though enforcement varies. Users are often asked to declare their own age.
Spain's ban will be added to an already existing measure centered on digital protections for minors that is being debated by parliament, a government spokesperson said. Sánchez said that could happen as early as next week.
It’s unclear if Sánchez’s left-wing coalition will get the approval needed in Parliament, where his government lacks a majority. A spokesperson for the far-right Vox party said the Sánchez government's measure was aimed at "making sure that no one criticizes them,” while the main opposition party — the center-right Popular Party — said it had proposed similar restrictions last year, seemingly offering its support.
Social media companies Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — and X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sánchez also said that Spain had joined five other European countries in what the Spanish leader dubbed a “coalition of the digitally willing" to coordinate the regulation of social media platforms at a multinational level.
Additionally, Spain would make it a criminal offense to manipulate algorithms to amplify illegal content and would hold tech executives liable for failing to take down criminal content from their platforms, he said.
“No more pretending that technology is neutral," Sánchez said.
Both measures would require parliamentary approval to change Spanish law, a government spokesperson said.
FILE - A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school, in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, FIle)
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a media conference at the end of the EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
