Dave Pollard

. . . I have always believed that it is folly to go into business alone. There are more than three roles in most successful businesses. There can be at least eight: You need partners to research, to teach, to imagine, to design, to create, to cultivate, to sustain and to connect. A successful business has people with all these competencies, directed at affordably meeting an identified unmet need. A sustainable business has people that not only do these things well, but love doing them, and whose competencies don't significantly overlap. These are businesses [that succeed], at the intersection of your people's collective gift, passion and purpose.

My weblog is, more than anything else, a diary for talking myself into practicing what I preach, for convincing myself that I must act. Help convince me, it says to my readers, who are impatiently hoping for me to convince them.