A note comes home from school and for once it carries good news. A third grader earned a behaviour celebration, and his mother sits at the back of the room watching him collect his snacks, proud of her own choices as much as his. Stephanie Arkadie builds a whole argument about consequences out of that afternoon, and it lands better than any abstract version would.
Vision is her recurring subject and she is specific about the order. The first vision you need is of yourself, before any business one makes sense. She works through discovering it, planning it, sustaining it and stretching it, drawing on conversations she runs with a partner.
There is a post on operations as the part of a business nobody wants to think about, and one on non-conformity arguing that a brand only counts if you refuse to be talked out of your own message.
A piece on a civil rights leader asks what would have been lost had he taken the advice of sensible people.
Read the school note post first.