Mike Sharrow

Heard yesterday from a widower, "Grief is love without any place to go."

The Silent Killer of High Performance Corporate Teams realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/…

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

📊The State of the Christian Workplace Report data reveals engagement is at its highest level in 15 years, however, one in three employees is still not fully engaged in Christian-led workplaces. ➡️Download the report: hubs.la/Q045VWsl0 #ChristianLeadership

The data is here. 📊 SOCW26 just dropped — and it’s one of the clearest looks yet at engagement inside Christian-led workplaces. See what’s improving… and where leaders can’t afford to look away. 🔗 hubs.la/Q045kk7s0 #EmployeeEngagement #ChristianLeadership

Seems like an appropriate time to re-share an article I wrote one year ago.

Regardless of your political affiliation this is an important, short speech to listen to in full. My sincere prayers are with US service members, the people of those counties Iran is now striking, and the Persian people most of whom have no responsibility for their regime.

What I Learned In Business School Wasn't Reflected In the Real World realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/…

@BrentBeshore If you've not met Mark Canlis in Seattle, he'd be a guy for MSS sometime. But this "Becoming" clip is up your alley on this on the human stewardship side of things - youtube.com/watch?v=wfEmU5…

Remember: good people don’t go to Heaven. Saved people do. Now saved people should do good things, but because we are saved not to be saved. @Ed_Newton @CBCSocial

There’s a big difference between being around Jesus and belonging to Jesus. @Ed_Newton @CBCSocial

Satan wants believers to doubt their salvation and nonbeliever to doubt their need for salvation. @Ed_Newton @CBCSocial

@BrentBeshore you sound more and more like a romantic poet-philosopher, B :)

A few reactions: 1) Pilgrimage is bodily. Parish is local. The phone is disembodied. There's serious danger to the gnostic drift of digital life. 2) Church isn't a consumer good, whether local or distant. The Gospel isn’t about the heroism of the pilgrim, but grace seeking and rescuing you. 3) Humans create visible tokens of invisible hope. First editions, flex purchases, pilgrimages to restaurants are liturgies. What are the promises being pursued?

Great questions!

In business school, I thought businesses should leverage more to drive growth. Then, I learned about the real world. Link => ceoworld.biz/2026/02/16/in-… By Mike Sharrow, CEO of C12 Business Forums

@Jason @paulg Well played

@paulg 1. When you write, cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader is important.

1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.

WATCH: Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks to the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important thing any rational person can learn. So many of our debates and disagreements that we shout about are because we don’t understand Bayes’ theorem or how human rationality often works. Bayes’ theorem is named after the 18th-century Thomas Bayes, and essentially it’s a formula that asks: when you are presented with all of the evidence for something, how much should you believe it? Bayes’ theorem teaches us that our beliefs are not fixed; they are probabilities. Our beliefs change as we weigh new evidence against our assumptions, or our priors. In other words, we all carry certain ideas about how the world works, and new evidence can challenge them. For example, somebody might believe that smoking is safe, that stress causes mouth ulcers, or that human activity is unrelated to climate change. These are their priors, their starting points. They can be formed by our culture, our biases, or even incomplete information. Now imagine a new study comes along that challenges one of your priors. A single study might not carry enough weight to overturn your existing beliefs. But as studies accumulate, eventually the scales may tip. At some point, your prior will become less and less plausible. Bayes’ theorem argues that being rational is not about black and white. It’s not even about true or false. It’s about what is most reasonable based on the best available evidence. But for this to work, we need to be presented with as much high-quality data as possible. Without evidence—without belief-forming data—we are left only with our priors and biases. And those aren’t all that rational.

Shutting DHS down has zero impact and zero changes for ICE. ICE already has $75B in funding from the BBB that I did not vote for. But it will hit FEMA, Coast Guard, TSA and our Cybersecurity Agency. As a Democrat, I can’t vote to shut down critical parts of our government.

@WillManidis Your whit, elegance, clarity and deftness at weaving historical, economic and philosophical fabric is a beautiful thing.