When I was a kid, I used to play with my grandpa’s magnifying glass. He used it to read the fine print. I used it to, well, to learn important life lessons. After looking at every book or photograph in detail, I got bored.  After all, I was only six, so I did what any industrious six-year old boy would do: I took it outside, beneath the clear, cool Kansas sky. Dry leaves. Sunshine. A magnifying glass: the stuff of adventure! T...

As we dive into the New Year, there are thousands of blogs, posts, articles, and books about planning and strategy that you can read that would be really helpful to you and your business. But this isn’t that. Nor is this a blog post about making or keeping New Year’s resolutions, although if I were going to make a resolution, it would be to give up potato chips. I love them, and they hate me. But I keep eating them. So whethe...

If I were to ask 100 people their most important advice on Leadership, I’d get 100 different answers. Perhaps no topic in the world is more common and less understood than Leadership. All 100 answers may be excellent, but none are really ever complete. While we can’t solve that problem here, we can discuss one leadership trait that’s been on my mind: Talk. Words matter. Being aware of your words before you speak them is an...

I really don’t care much for Halloween. Ghosts and goblins and magic spells just aren’t my scene. October is my birth month, and here in South Louisiana the weather begins to cool down a bit, so I do love this time of year with football, the World Series, satsumas, and boiled peanuts. But you can have the hocus pocus. I started my own business in 1995, and I can assure you there’s nothing magic about success in business. It t...