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.

Technology 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 now work again, even with changes in tech. Adam also talks about what it takes to be great at sales and how it's not what many people think.

I read an annoying essay with the clickbait-y headline “The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.” 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.

I 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.

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.

To discern the truth in a headline, think like Edward Tufte, founder of information design and hero to Fortune’s Path: look at the context.

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.