Are product managers like general contractors? Is business a good tool to make the world a better place? And how is running a start-up like parenting? These are some of the questions Tom asks Katie Reilly, a Partner with TechCXO, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.

Robert Carroll, leader of award winning product and marketing teams and a successful entrepreneur, talks about the differences between managing physical products and software, interface design, and why it's important to know what you want to achieve when you start a business, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.

This summer, Fortune’s Path sent a survey to all of its newsletter subscribers and LinkedIn followers. We had seen reports that Americans are reading more than ever, but reading fewer books. We wondered, what, then, were they reading, and how were they accessing the content?

Tom talks with Ann Howard, product and technology leader and Executive Vice President for XIFIN. 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.

Leadership 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.

CEO and start-up addict Carm Huntress talks about bringing healthcare out of the fax age and why strategy is misunderstood but so important. 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.

Fortune’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.

Whether 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.

Eric Carroll learned valuable lessons from his father’s career as an entrepreneur, and he’s applied them to his own work in non-traditional ways. Eric is a product leader with experience in education, consumer goods, and healthcare. Tom and Eric discuss deciding what kind of leader you want to be — Step 4 of the 12 Steps of Product Management. And Eric talks about managing your family as a product, complete with off-site meetings and goal-setting with your partner. Tom slips in a casual reference to reading Seneca.

Bill Horne has always wanted to be a CEO but says it’s not a job for everybody. After a decade in sales for IBM, he began his journey as President/CEO or board member at eight different companies. Bill was recently the chief executive at Quovant, a legal spend management and data analytics business, and now heads 88 Keys, an executive coaching firm. Tom and Bill talk about improving the things you can control and accepting the things you can’t, step 2 of the 12 Steps of Product Management. And Bill explains how he brings customers into board meetings.