Cleared for Takeoff

Hi network. Hope you're well.

A few weeks ago, I launched the War Stories newsletter, with the goal of advancing ideas on leadership in organizations through storytelling.

In those few weeks, a dozen posts have gathered nearly 10k reads, almost 500 reactions/comments, and 1000 subscribers. To employ some typically British understatement, that's a decent start.

But ... the pilot in me wants to go further, higher, and faster than might seem reasonable to others. And the Amazonian in me wants to keep growing, expanding, and reaching into new minds to exert more influence, and to do so at pace.

So my ask is that if you are enjoying the newsletter so far (and btw, a huge thanks for reading my words and to those who have given me great feedback), please do two things.

1. Share this post & the newsletter w/ your network.

2. When you enjoy an individual post, react and share, adding your thoughts.

More engagement, more reach, an ever-growing conversation ... these are my unapologetic goals.

My time as an Amazonian is soon drawing to a close, and I am gradually turning the page into a new chapter. I don't know what that looks like yet. But almost certainly it will involve writing, speaking, researching, and teaching on the subjects of leadership, operations, and organizations. Your encouragement and participation can turbo-charge that transition. Your ideas and reactions are gold dust to me!

I've had an exceptional professional journey because of leaders who set superior examples for me, invested in my growth, and helped me see the difference leadership makes in the work experience, success, and lives of people and teams. My greatest source of fulfilment has been paying that forward by building others up and watching them achieve more than they thought possible.

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I want a larger and richer conversation about how leadership is the antidote to work misery, the kryptonite against mediocrity, and our most eternally renewable source of organizational energy. A conversation where we learn from stories, the experiences of others, from one another. And that learning flows into organizations as a better work experience for legions of those who create the value that makes the world go round.

This is how that conversation starts ... with a modest exchange of ideas carrying the hope of mutual influence.

Thanks to you all, and stay restless.