"I recommend everybody buy this book" — @drlauraprogram Seven-year-old Gabe thinks saying “I’m sorry” is enough to fix any mistake—until he accidentally ruins his neighbor’s cherished garden while practicing his soccer kicks. This time, his go-to apology doesn’t cut it.

Thanks to Ken and McKenzie Lain for graciously hosting us last week at Watters Garden Center in Prescott, Arizona, for a book signing and presentation of Maxwell’s “All You Can Eat Business Wisdom: Second Helpings.” For those who missed the event, the book is available from Amazon at: tinyurl.com/AYCEBW2026.

Advice from business valuation expert David C. Barnett of Business Buyer Advantage to Ken Lain, owner of Watters Garden Center. Ken is actively looking to purchase other garden centers. From this week’s Monday Morning Radio: tinyurl.com/MMR092826

It may not last, but Amazon is selling this great business advice book featuring the wisdom of 21 experts, normally $39.95, for only $23.33. Worth every penny times 100. ACT FAST! tinyurl.com/AYCEBW2-Unsigned

Available from Amazon for $11.10 tinyurl.com/BISIS-Rotbart

“The loss and despair were, indeed, profound. But so was how we all came together to recover.” — Gwendolyn Bounds @gwendolynbounds, "September Twelfth," p. 30. tinyurl.com/NineEleven25

A crisis is the wrong time to start teaching employees judgment, initiative, ethics, and teamwork. Those qualities must already be part of the culture. tinyurl.com/MMR090726

Some of your best ideas may arrive when you stop trying so hard to find them. @saraconnell explains how to create the mental space that allows breakthrough thinking to surface. tinyurl.com/MMR091426

Check out my latest article: Your Next Breakthrough Idea May Arrive When You Stop Trying So Hard to Find It linkedin.com/pulse/your-next… via @LinkedIn

VIDEOS: On four dates in March 2021, I hosted “reunions” of WSJ reporters and editors who played a key role in my book, “September Twelfth: Ground Zero on 9/11 with The Wall Street Journal.” The videos of the panels are a time capsule of memories. These the links to the videos on YouTube: tinyurl.com/9-11HarmsWay tinyurl.com/9-11Scattered tinyurl.com/9-11SBandDC tinyurl.com/9-11FiveLives The newly expanded edition of “September Twelfth” is available from Amazon at tinyurl.com/NineEleven25.

On the Anniversary of 9/11, Dean Rotbart’s 'September Twelfth' Profiles Former WSJ and ProPublica Editor Paul E. Steiger einpresswire.com/article/941… via @ein_news

“Everyone immediately went to work, even at great personal peril.” — Marcus Brauchli, September Twelfth, p. 32. tinyurl.com/NineEleven25

The Wall Street Journal’s Comeback on 9/11 Deserves Its Place in History linkedin.com/pulse/wall-stre…

“It took everything I had to keep going, making one decision after another and hoping they were good ones.” — Jim Pensiero, 2026 edition of "September Twelfth," p. 32. tinyurl.com/NineEleven25

Great leaders don’t make themselves indispensable. They build organizations that can function when they’re absent. That lesson came into sharp focus at The Wall Street Journal on 9/11. tinyurl.com/MMR090726 @WizardofAds

“This story is a prayer. It lifts us all up.” — Brian Doyle, reacting to the Journal’s “Five Lives,” September Twelfth, p. 283. tinyurl.com/NineEleven25 @alansmurray @BryanGruley @PhilKuntz @helenecooper

Company culture isn’t what’s written in an employee handbook. It’s what people instinctively do when the normal rules and routines disappear. Dean and Maxwell Rotbart explain. tinyurl.com/MMR090726

“The kind of hard, straight, fearless journalism The Wall Street Journal practiced on September 11, 2001…will remain valued and will win out.” — Gerald F. Seib, September Twelfth, p. 24. tinyurl.com/NineEleven25

The Wall Street Journal lost access to its main newsroom on 9/11 — yet published a Pulitzer Prize-winning edition the next day. What can business leaders learn from that? Plenty. tinyurl.com/MMR090726 @WSJ