On why I started writing

I didn't set out to write a book.

I set out to understand something I'd been circling for years. Something I could feel but couldn't quite name. It kept showing up in client work, in team conversations, in that quiet space after a project ends when you finally have room to think.

A pattern. About why leaders who genuinely want to move things forward so often find themselves pushing against something they can't see. Why the organizations most in need of change are also the ones least able to choose it. Why transformation announces itself and then quietly disappears.

The idea wouldn't leave me alone. So I started writing.

Here's the strange part

A few weeks ago I went back through old LinkedIn posts from nearly a decade ago. I was looking for something specific. Can't remember what now.

What I found instead were the same questions I'm sitting with today.

The language was rougher. The thinking half-formed. But the instinct was already there. I just wasn't ready to see it yet.

Turns out I've been working on this a lot longer than I thought.

What happens here

This is where I think out loud while the book takes shape.

You'll see draft thinking before it's anywhere near done. Ideas that open something up. Ideas that fall flat and teach me something anyway. Thirty years of building organizations and consulting to them, finally being written down properly.

None of it's finished. Some of it probably shouldn't be yet.

But it's honest work. Trying to name something that's been with me a long time, getting clearer as I write, stumble, and figure it out. About leaders who want to move toward what's possible, and the organizations that pull toward what's already known. About the gap between those two things, and what it actually takes to close it.

If you've spent any time trying to move an organization that wasn't sure it wanted to move, you'll recognize what I'm describing.

This is me making sense of it.

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That's usually where it starts.