Listen to “Staying the Course” by Fred Smith Several years ago I read an article using research to illustrate how the brain reacts to gain and loss. It seems the amount of [...]
Listen to “Slip Sliding Away” by Fred Smith By now, many of you have read the frequent articles and responses to the latest Pew Research showing the number of people who [...]
Listen to “The Dumb Tax” by Fred Smith “Where’s the elevator?” The donor looked up the empty shaft in the nonprofit’s new building his family’s foundation had [...]
Listen to “Bad Advice” by Fred Smith Last week I wrote about the importance and also the difficulty of letting go. There comes a time when the founder or entrepreneur must [...]
Listen to “Hands Off” by Fred Smith For me, as someone having founded and co-founded several organizations, few things are more satisfying than spending time with men and women [...]
Listen to “Break Bread and Give Thanks” by Fred Smith He sat down, paused before he spoke and then said, “It’s too much for me to give thanks. I cannot be thankful for this. I [...]
Listen to “Creative Collisions” by Fred Smith One of our daughters spent a semester at The University of Florence in Italy years ago so Carol and I took the opportunity to [...]
Listen to “The One That Got Away” by Fred Smith For years I have been a fan of those able to take concepts from different periods of history, various disciplines, and skills to [...]
Listen to “Soft on Sin” by Fred Smith What the heck was Jonah’s problem with Nineveh? The same problem as the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son. The same problem [...]
Listen to “Stop the Steal” by Fred Smith Rebellions do not happen overnight. After years, there is always a tipping point in either an event or a moment that precipitates them. [...]
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