By Charlie Gilkey

Thank you for being in business. Yes, it can be hard, but you also know how rewarding it can be.

There is a lot of pressure for you to be bigger, or act bigger, than you are. There are plenty of people who think you should be focused on selling your business, being acquired by another business, or building a business that scales to make room for loads of employees or investors.

Yet so much of that counsel never considers the fact that maybe you want to stay small. Or it considers staying small the inferior mindset of second-rate entrepreneurs or executives. It never questions the unconscious assumptions of the value of growth for growth’s sake or the virtues of running a people-focused small business. And it rarely looks at the societal and environmental consequences... More...