Tom Gegax wants us all to achieve beyond our wildest dreams.

Minneapolis: Meet Tom Gegax and his partner, Don Gullet.  These two opened for business in 1976 with a few gas stations. By 2000, they had 150 tires stores with 2,000 employees generating $200 million in annual sales.

That's a good story unto itself, but today we're looking into the question about tipping points. The question is, "Because of the transparency of the internet, have we reached a tipping point where ethics, goodness, values and creativity will come back front and center as the focus of business?"

We do not know the answer but we hope so. In this episode of the show, we learn from a master entrepreneur about the meaning and value of life. Tom Gegax is pulling and pushing us up the ladder. When they sold this business, he became an author. His third book, The Big Book About Small Business  builds on his first two,  By the Seat of Your Pants: The No-Nonsense Business Survival Guide, and Winning in the Game of Life.

Most of bootstrap. We run that business right by the seat of our pants. But, something is happening to us all along the way. We are constantly learning, and today we are learning more rapidly than ever. We have so ratcheted up all the equations, we just may have reached a tipping point.

The first editorial title for Tom's book was The Enlightened Executive. And with all these self-help books and continuous improvement cycles within our lives, enlightenment is actually breaking out all over.

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