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 Light is Still Waiting” by Fred Smith When my father became ill near the end of his life, he fought death as hard as anyone I knew – just as he had willed [...]
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 “Same Kind of Different” by Fred Smith In that same interview mentioned in the blog last week the question was asked, “What is the state of what some of us call Big [...]
Listen to “More than Enough” by Fred Smith My wife, Carol, was sleeping in the passenger seat as we drove past the exit sign for Tyler, Texas. It was 1977 and we were on our [...]
Listen to “The Good Commission” by Fred Smith Some blogs are diaries – personal and revealing by making you feel you have been invited into the interior of the author’s life. [...]
Listen to “Ears to Hear” by Fred Smith I pray none of my college professors read this late confession. I went to school in a time that valued citations and footnotes – not so [...]
Listen to “Do the Next Thing” by Fred Smith Now and then I host what Quakers call a Clearness Committee for an individual working their way through an issue about direction or [...]
Listen to “More” by Fred Smith Periodically, I think about full retirement and what that might mean. I asked one friend about it, and his response was, “Retire from what? You [...]
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