Writing · Read the Terrain
Where I think out loud.
Essays on leadership, systems, and what the trail keeps teaching me about both. No spam, no funnels, no “crushing it.” Just the actual thinking, on a regular basis.
Featured essays
A few to start with. The rest live on Substack.
You Can’t Lead a Cat Like a Dog
Treating people the way I want to be treated only works if they want the same things I do.
Read on SubstackThe Cost of Misplacing Capable People
This is how organizations lose their strongest thinkers without ever losing the person.
Read on SubstackThe Ghost Hours
This is how leadership is dismantled. It isn’t a loud failure in a meeting.
Read on SubstackFrom the Classroom
The earlier writing.
Before the systems work, there was the classroom. These older posts are practical, teacher-to-teacher, and still useful if that’s where you are. Kept here on purpose, a little apart from the leadership essays.
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