Recent letters.
The Room I Was Never Quite In
The top job came earlier for me than it did for anyone I knew, and the first thing it cost was company.
Conditions Apply
Most people learn this at forty-five and take it as betrayal. It is not betrayal.
I Was One of Them
The lesson only ever arrives one way, and it is not the way anybody wants.
The Camp You Never Built
The lower camps get stocked on the way up, at the exact moment it feels like a waste of good weather.
A Quiet Quarter Is Not Good News
A calm company and a healthy company file exactly the same report.
I sleep well
I write about what leadership actually looks like from the inside. The Next Mountain is a fortnightly newsletter for senior leaders who want r…
I was the fast one
I write about what leadership actually looks like from the inside. The Next Mountain is a fortnightly newsletter for senior leaders who want r…
I Have Not Gone Back
The mountain is still there. I am four hours from it. I have not been.
The Ones I Backed
I never wrote it down, and I am still not sure it was judgement
The Books I Read to Feel Behind
The private practice behind this week's essay
The Message I Deleted
On the ask I keep dressing up so it does not look like an ask
The word with no scoreboard
Three words. Three decades. And the one I find hardest to live.