Entrepreneur and marketer John Farkas tells how he created a digital agency built around the power of story telling. John discusses his background in theater and how that shaped his views about communication, business, leadership, and collaboration.

Corporations and wealthy individuals spend billions to influence local, state, and federal lawmakers. That influence is used, at least in part, to convince lawmakers to subsidize the work in which the influencers are engaged.

Chris Gann, Vice President of Product for HealthStream, believes it's better to be skeptical than confident, but customers demand confidence. Chris's long history of working in innovation and technology has taught him the core of product management is knowing you don't know, working to get smarter, and always remaining open-minded.

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.

Long-time friend of Fortune’s Path Bob Batcheler – "Batch" to his friends – talks about his journey with four start-ups. 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.

The 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.

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.

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.