One Journey, Two Paths
Impact Moment • Leadership Parable One Journey, Two Paths A Father. A Son. A Choice. A timeless story about accountability, character, and the Circle of Growth. A Father and His Son A father sat on the porch with his 18-year-old son on a quiet evening. The sky was fading to dusk, and a gentle breeze […]
This Is How Empires Fall (And How We Stop Selling Our Future)
Feature This Is How Empires Fall (And How We Stop Selling Our Future) Empires don’t collapse like a dropped glass. They’re taken apart, bolt by bolt, by people who know exactly what they’re doing and exactly how they’ll profit when the dust settles. The trick is simple: manufacture fear, sell “safety,” pass convenient laws, convert […]
The “$1 Salary” Trick: How CEOs Get Paid Without A Paycheck
ACME LLC’s $1-Salary Play: How Tom Got Paid Without a Paycheck Boardroom, Monday, 8:07 a.m., the hour when coffee is a verb and everyone pretends their inbox isn’t smoldering. Evelyn, ACME’s board chair, opens the compensation discussion with the question that decides headlines and heat maps: “Tom, your comp proposal?” Tom doesn’t blink. “Salary: one […]
Is Democracy Dead—or Just Waiting on Us?
Civic Signal Is Democracy Dead—or Just Waiting on Us? I’ll say it plain: a constitutional nation only stays healthy if its middle class stays strong. In a market democracy, folks aren’t kept in line by a king; they’re held by hope—the believable path that if you work, learn, and play fair, you can build a […]
Jesus didn’t create a pipeline to God—He tore down the tollbooths.
The Pharaoh Problem: Chosen by Faith, Not Pedigree A Circle of Growth perspective Set aside the later Pauline interpretations for a moment and look straight at Jesus in the Gospels. What you see is a man breaking down religious tollbooths—confronting gatekeepers who claimed a monopoly on God. He didn’t preach a church-run pipeline to grace […]
Introduction to the Circle of Growth: The 3 Stages of Growth
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