Many years ago I began a podcast called LEANING TOWARD WISDOM. Yep, the URL is the same thing, LeaningTowardWisdom.com. I’m not hawking it because I don’t care if you check it out or not. What I do care is that you know it’s FUN.

Here’s a secret. Okay, not so much as secret as a little known and little-deployed truth among business owners. Congruency is central to communication. In a word, congruency is about agreement. It’s about things making sense.

Much of my career was spent in the world of retailing where transactions are a valued metric. But I was never transactional. Philosophically. Or practically.  That is, I’d measure the average sale, the average number of items per sale,

I first shared these thoughts over on Facebook. Just a day ago.  Plagiarizing website copy is stealing. It’s always a curious thing to me when I see a company or so-called “professional” take the copy (almost word for word) from a competitor’s website ...

Enthusiasm is defined as intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval. I suppose people can be committed without it. But that’s not much of a life!  Companies and organizations have been focused on culture for the past 50 years. Before that,

It’s one of the hardest things to accomplish. To get insights without the judgment.  You’re surrounded by lots of people willing to tell you what you ought to do. Should-ing people is easy.  “You should do this. Or that. But not this other.

Managing first growth is different than later stage growth. Or it *can* be.  Recently, I’ve encountered a few folks who have started up. They’re early stage. Some are 2-3 years in, and others are less than a year in.

Happy Saturday. I tire of hearing about business owners experiencing exploding marriages and families. More than that, I get really sick of hearing folks chant, “Hustle! Hustle! Hustle!” inferring that success requires complete devotion to career,

Culture glorifies the unicorn. A unicorn is a company that started, scaled up and broke the BILLION dollar annual revenue barrier. Back in 2015 it was calculated that your startup had a 1.28% chance of becoming a unicorn.

The Grow Great podcast will bring you some conversations with small business owners from around the world. Yes, I’m going to focus on the U.S., but entrepreneurship is global (and so is our audience).  I’ve reached out to a few,