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IGNITE is your free weekly spark for practical leadership. Every Wednesday, get one clear insight to solve problems, simplify systems, and take action that gets results—at work, at home, and in life.
09.09.2026 IGNITE Where Dr. Tom Webb sparks your curiosity and inspires action! Reader, This past weekend, my son Mason ran in the Twilight XC Classic in Memphis, Tennessee. What a cool event. Junior high, high school, and college races. All at night. Lights, music, energy, and hundreds of runners packed together waiting for the gun. Mason’s race had 434 boys on the starting line. Watch the clip and FEEL the start ----- And they were off. I stood there thinking, I cannot imagine standing on a...
08.19.2026 IGNITE Where Dr. Tom Webb sparks your curiosity and inspires action! Reader, Here’s a phrase I’ve been thinking about lately: Own what you notice. It may be one of the simplest definitions of leadership I know. As humans, we are incredibly good at noticing things. We notice the broken process. The meeting that wastes everyone’s time. The student who keeps slipping through the cracks. The customer experience that could be better. The recurring task nobody has figured out. The little...
08.12.2026 IGNITE Where Dr. Tom Webb sparks your curiosity and inspires action! Reader, I was born and raised on the corner of Center and Guthrie Streets in Ottawa, Illinois. When I was nine years old, I became a paperboy. I started with about 30 customers on Cornell Street, delivering papers six days a week. By the time I was 13, I had moved over to Guthrie Street and expanded to a 60-paper route. This was back in the 1900s, believe it or not. There was no automatic payment, online billing,...