1: “I learned the most important lesson of my life as my father’s life came to its end,” Ron Shaich writes in his terrific book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.

The year was 1998.  Ron was CEO of Au Bon Pain, a prominent chain of French-inspired bakery-cafés. The following year, the company would change its name to Panera Bread Company.  

“Several years after a … continue reading

1: Life is about relationships.  

We spend our personal and professional lives gathering with others. “And we spend much of that time in uninspiring, underwhelming moments that fail to capture us, change us in any way, or connect us to one another,” Priya Parker writes in The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.

“Gathering—the conscious bringing together of people for a reason—shapes the … continue reading