Author: pallas

Peace to you this season. [more] It's December 16, 2008, and today is another bad news day for me. The news I'm getting is probably similar to yours. The report...

As I look back I am grateful for so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about gratitude I still have for people who believed in me. In fact, I have a...

Growth in organizations requires growth in their leaders.  Good leaders learn to make the hard transition from player to coach – doer to teacher of doers. [more] As a big...

My involvement in the foundation’s for-profit businesses is now “from a distance.” And I’m amazed by what that distance lends for perspective I can use to help my partners and...

Complex problems are best solved by simple, if sometimes difficult approaches.  The most important of these is getting good people and respecting their work. [more] This Irish kid from Ashtabula...

Getting started on changing the world can be as simple as joining a group like Social Venture Partners I get a lot of questions from readers whose thoughts seem to...

The free enterprise system, like its consumers, seems now too focused on financial products and not focused enough on “making and trading”.  We are in danger of becoming insatiable gamblers. ...

If there is something you’d really like to do, now is the time to measure it, then if it is anything short of fatal, do it. It’s 1988. I’m golfing...

Businesses can serve (both) a social and a profit mission.  Many already are doing this effectively. [more] A couple hundred years ago, our nation's first significant business "professor" Benjamin Franklin,...

Good decision making is the result of good discipline. My sister, Felicia, saw me teach at Lakeland Community College’s Entrepreneurship Academy last week and on the way home she said,...