The cost of being a successful CEO out on a stroll with a bunch of doe-eyed youngsters is that all of your talk about risk and what it really takes to make it in such a cutthroat industry inevitably leads to a kind of “dive right in” mentality.

Ever notice how the warmer your team culture is, the more difficult it becomes to confront or even identify a problematic teammate? So what do you do?

Ever screw something up at work? Everyone has. So do you own up to your mistake, or do you try and hide it? Maybe there's another option.

You’ve mastered the sales pitch, great!… but what about the followthrough? Because anyone can grab a clipboard and post up outside of a shopping mall, intercepting families as they come and go.

By his 139th birthday, the scientist existed as a severed head in a jar of fluid. Crisscrossing wires jutted out of the sides of the jar and connected to large computers that did things that only the scientist himself could explain.

And so a month after they built the fifth Wal-Mart in our county, a little coffee shop opened just a few yards away.  

At this point in the story, Dog Dad is living in a one-bedroom apartment with fifteen dogs. It has been four months since his release from prison and he is struggling to find even a part time job that grants him the flexibility to work around the mandatory care that is required to keep the dogs healthy.

It wasn’t until we were driving home from dinner that my wife Diane told me that the chips and guacamole I had been eating hadn’t been meant for the entire table.

At dinner, my wife Diane told me that Deb and Gary were going to stop by for drinks later and that it might be nice to put out one of the good candles.

They built the world’s largest salad. The whole thing was set up in a park about an hour away from our home so my wife Diane convinced me that it might be fun to go see it.