American politics is divided by competing answers to one fundamental question: what are the government’s responsibilities to its citizens?
The Founders agreed that citizens had certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that government maintained its moral authority only if it protected these rights. Their agreements stopped there.
Read MoreLong-time friend of Fortune’s Path Bob Batcheler – "Batch" to his friends – talks about his journey with four start-ups, including LeanKit, where he became a devotee of the lean start-up process. Batch gives advice about how to find your next great opportunity and not just your next one. A Lean leader and business consultant, Batch also talks about maintaining his network, and why it’s good to talk to people with no hope of ever getting money or favor from them.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is an opportunity to examine the importance of first principles. First principles are the passions and ideas that drive our behavior. They are very different from corporate mission statements, which are easily ignored. First principles can’t be ignored because they animate all our actions, but first principles can be examined and changed.
Read MoreTom talks with Ann Howard, product and technology leader and Executive Vice President for OmniSYS. Ann tells how making people feel comfortable and supported leads to great results, and inspires us to feel good about the future even when things are tough in the present.
Read MoreLeadership is a skill. Skills start as instincts and get developed through training. If you want to be a leader, it’s helpful to know what your natural leadership instincts are.
Read MoreTechnology and sales veteran Adam Zais talks about how to find great companies to work for and invest in. Tom and Adam take a trip in the way-back machine to discuss early days of the PC and how business models that worked once can work again even when the tech changes. Adam also talks about what it takes to be great at sales and how it's not what many people think.
Read MoreI read an annoying essay in the New York Times recently with the clickbait-y headline “The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.” Deeply interested in wealth and happiness, I pressed on. Instead of insight, I found an excellent example of the perils of our “data-driven decision making” obsession. Data may remove ignorance, but it does not make us wise, and decisions require wisdom.
Read MoreI love meeting new people. Well, not always. I love meeting new people I find interesting, which is most people, but definitely not all people. Carm Huntress is the sort of person I love to meet, and he was a guest on the Fortune’s Path podcast this week. Carm is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, healthcare geek, audiophile, and father of young kids. He also understands the value of automating a manual process in healthcare, always one of my favorite business strategies.
Read MoreCEO and start-up addict Carm Huntress talks about bringing healthcare out of the fax age and why strategy is misunderstood but so important. Carm explains how his company Credo Health is making healthcare safer and helping physicians get paid what they're worth by improving access to medical record information. Carm talks about why he believes we'll all have digital access to our health records some day, but that it won't happen through direct to consumer approaches. You'll also hear Carm and Tom disagree about how to get the attention of healthcare executives.
Read MoreFortune’s Path Founder Tom Noser sat down with four other entrepreneurs for a conversation about hiring the right people and building a great company culture in the process.
Read MoreWhether you’re picking a mate, an adopted family, or a running buddy, deciding who you spend time with is the most important decision you can make. This applies as much to who you work with as it does who you live with.
Read MoreTo discern the truth in a headline, think like Edward Tufte, founder of information design and hero to Fortune’s Path: look at the context.
Read MoreAnne Chaconas isn’t brave, she just has a lot of practice putting herself out there. As a marketing leader, Anne has run her own firm and earned positions of increasing responsibility at a variety of tech companies. She recently joined ClockShark as the VP of Growth, where she and her team own the entire cycle of marketing, sales, and customer success. Tom and Anne talk about loving your customers, step 3 of the 12 Steps of Product Management. And Anne explains how marketing a business is like setting up a profile on a dating app.
Read MoreShannon Hooper, formally Chief Growth Officer at Revive Health and now Chief Strategy and Product Officer at BehavVR, talks about how she improves her insight through contact with customers, colleagues, and people she admires, step 11 of the 12 Steps of Product Management. Tom and Shannon also talk about how stoicism inspires Shannon and how Shannon interviews for traits like curiosity.
Read MoreConsider this your product strategy / product launch / market strategies cheat-sheet.
Read MoreMartin Eriksson traces the origin of product management to Neil McElroy of Procter & Gamble. We don’t think this goes back far enough. In our continuing effort to educate the pubic that product management is not a role, it’s a set of principles, we present The Fortune’s Path List of Product Management Pioneers.
Read MoreWe need a new definition of product management. We’re not CEOs of our products, or Brand Men. Product Management is a set of principles about using power to get customers what they want even when customers don’t know what they want.
Read MoreTom talks with Chuck Garcia, professional speaker, executive coach, best selling author, talk radio show host, Columbia University Professor, and avid mountain climber. Chuck helps executives transform themselves into better leaders. Founder of Climb Leadership International, Chuck trains executives in Leadership Communication, Executive Presence, and Emotional Intelligence. A 14 year veteran of Bloomberg and four years at Blackrock, Chuck talks about how emotional intelligence and empathy are critical for transformative leaders. See if you agree with him on this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
Read MoreSlaying your dragons doesn’t always mean having the courage to do what you love. Sometimes it means having the courage to do what you don’t want to do, but know needs to be done. Dragons are imaginary, but they still take courage to overcome. Less than 1% of all the things I worry about have happened, yet the fear is just as real as if I’d stepped into dragon slobber.
Read MoreAcknowledging who you are with, their history, their struggles and triumphs, is graciousness, and it’s an awesome sales technique. We want to buy from people and products we trust. It’s hard to establish trust if you have no empathy, if you don’t acknowledge your audience. Why should I buy from someone who’s guiding principal is “I care nothing for you”?
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