Ownership to Leadership, Part I

Owning a business isn’t for everyone. It’s a high-stakes, high-pressure, long-hours profession regardless of the business. It’s also hard on personal relationships. The divorce rate

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Assumptions

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Father Ollie and Father Sven were pastors of separate churches in a small northern town. Father Ollie led

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Cover Me

Nothing suggests excitement or suspense quite like someone saying, “Cover me.” When you hear this, you know something big is about to happen. In movies

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Birthdays

When you’ve experienced as many birthdays as I have, people probably aren’t surprised that I’ve chosen to write about them. But this Note isn’t about

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Falling In Love

What is it about small business owners that causes so many of us to fall in love with the people we hire? I don’t mean

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Fired Up

If you follow the logic of a business colleague and friend of mine, Mark, the unfavorable connotation so many of us attribute to getting fired

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The Cherry On Top

Who doesn’t like an old-fashioned ice cream sundae? They’re guaranteed to brighten the day of any child and to bring out the child in any

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