Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linconey where everything we talk

about is related to changing the world of work so that more organizations can be more

effective and less dysfunctional and employees can be more fulfilled and less miserable.

I'm your host Pat Linconey and I'm joined by my co-host Cody Thompson.

Cody what would be a good word to describe you?

Well you just on the third try, this is the only time you haven't said

trustee co-host. So let's go at Trustee. Trustee't said trustee co-host.

That's right.

Trustee, my trustee co-host.

And Tracy Noble, our adult supervision here, our producer, Tracy's on Mike today too.

And we've got Matt on the computer, He's our trustee engineer. And we today are going to talk about what's our topic Cody?

Today we're going to talk about why you should protect small business. That's right. Small business matters.

And during this time of year especially,

it seems that we see commercials on television

touting the importance of shopping locally

in mom and pop businesses in our community.

In fact, last Saturday was Small Business Saturday that

follows Black Friday. Ironically, some of the these commercials are sponsored by big

companies who are putting the most pressure on small companies

and are probably just making these commercials to make you think that they care.

Whatever the case though, it raises the question, why do small companies matter?

Who cares if they go out of business?

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