Sam Nguyen wonders: "What if businesspeople pulled for each other as much as we pull for ourselves? What if we got in the habit of celebrating excellence wherever we find it? Of assuming the egg on another person’s chin is more likely a slip of the fork than an indication he can’t find the hole in his face?"

Jim Hancock wonders what difference it would make to our colleagues and customers if we agreed to turn our backs on The Toddlers' Creed and act like grownups in the marketplace.

Calling a business relationship a "partnership" doesn't make it so. Guy Kawasaki has some thoughts on what qualifies for the title, "partners."

How do good businesspeople go bad? Not the bad actors who enter commerce looking for ways to skirt the rules but good and decent men and women who start out to create value only to end up cheap and dirty and pretentious?

If the government came to your suburban sub-division, and told you to leave your home, pull your kids out of school, move away from your friends, and tear down your small business, Glenn McMahan wonders if you would you simply step aside let them do it.