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We’ve all heard some form of the quote usually attributed to Frank Outlaw, the founder of Bi-Lo Stores: Watch your thoughts, they become...

Who? Me?! The newly minted July-August 2021 edition of Harvard Business Review (HBR) includes an insightful ethics article titled...

[This blog continues the story begun in the previous post. I know, the “Part II” kinda makes that obvious, but, you know, thought I’d...

[For this Part I blog and the next Part II blog, I share an edited version of a sermon I recently preached titled “The Good Capitalist”...

In the Introduction of our book Better Capitalism we shared a story that we’re discovering has hit a nerve. A law firm managing partner,...

Quick quiz -- guess who said: "The perfection of police, the extension of trade and manufacturers, are noble and magnificent objects. The...

America is currently plagued with a unique and fundamental lie about the role of government, whether that be federal, state, local, or...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the purpose of corporations is to maximize shareholder value.” Ok, that’s not actually...

We humans, like all species, have needs. Our tip-of-the-tongue list of needs usually begins with food, clothing, shelter, safety,...

Growth can be a joyful experience. My joyful growth memories include my first motorcycle, earning job promotions, graduating from degree...

On my back patio with a group of vaccinated but still socially distanced friends, we covered the usual gamut of complaints and concerns...

We want to share one of the back stories about our writing of Better Capitalism. Our thinking here is that our further transparency will...

I'm pretty sure Shakespeare did not have taxes in mind when he penned the phrase, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." I...

We had a frustrating experience recently introducing someone to Partnership Economics. I’ll call him “Bob.” Talking with Bob and then...

I enjoy watching a good movie. Who doesn’t, right? But so far there are only a few I appreciate well enough to buy and re-watch...

At the university seminary where Aaron and I were classmates and earned our MDiv degrees, the first-year curriculum included two...

Scripted across the expanse that is the inside of his right bicep and triceps, in Gothic letters large enough to easily read from several...

The sunrise view from my vacation rental is spectacular. The photo here doesn’t do the scene justice, but I offer it to you as a sense of...

A fantasy many of us grew up hearing is that we can design, control, and live the perfect lives we imagine, or others imagined for us....

2020 was a strange year in many ways, yet 2021 has begun with something truly bizarre: lobbyists have voluntarily reduced their lobbying....