What Are You Thinking?
If you really want to know, it is all in the writing that I have done over the past decade. All linked below.
I write to discover my own perspective.
I publish to create conversation.
I converse with people to expand my perspective.
I share it all with you here.
The Eddy Network Podcast episodes from 2023 will appear in a separate post soon, with an update at the end of the year.
The Future of Leadership at Substack
The Spectacle of the Real Series
The Two Global Forces Series
The Networks of Relationships Series
The Synthetic/ Synthesis Series
A Series on Trust
Circle of Impact Books - All Available at Amazon.
Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change
Leadership starts with the individual’s personal initiative to make a difference. Personal initiative is defined by the impact you create that inspires change. Are you ready to be a leader in a world in transition? … Your personal circle of impact is not about what you want to have, but what we can create—together.
All Crises Are Local: Understanding the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 coronavirus global pandemic has disrupted the lives and nations around the world. It has bred fear and anxiety. This short book looks at the response from a systems point of view. A system is an interdependent network of functions within a social or organizational structure.
Impact Starts With Me: A Path of Self-Discovery
This short book is an introduction to a life of impact. It is important to know that I believe that anyone can be a person of impact. In doing so, you are a leader who makes a difference that matters. For all leadership begins with personal initiative to create impact that makes a difference that matters to the people you know and for the community where you live and work.
Seeing Below The Surface of Things: The Brokenness of the Modern Organization
For over a decade, I’ve been talking with people about the transition they are experiencing. They feel it on a personal level. Most cannot identify how the organizations and institutions that live and work in are also in transition. In this short book, I look at this transition from the perspective of how organizations, all organizations, are broken.
Where Did Trust Go?: Restoring Authority and Accountability in Organizations
When I was asked a question about corruption in organizations, I decided to learn why. My conclusion is that the loss of trust in society is a product of the severing of authority from accountability. In this short book, I described what I learned.
Thriving in the Midst of Uncertainty: A Strategic Conversation with Bill Watkins
Everyday I have conversations with people where we talk about change, life, leadership, and the future of our world. Bill Watkins is a friend and business coach whose perspective has made a difference in my life and business far beyond anyone else. In this short book, I invite Bill into a conversation about how to thrive in the midst of uncertainty.
May Your No Be a Yes: A Guide To Making Better Decisions
There is an old saying which goes, ”Let your no be a no, and your yes be a yes.” In other words, be clear in your judgments. However, some times we need to say No as a way to affirm a Yes. When saying Yes to someone would cause us to violate our principles, then we need to have the mindset and the confidence to say No. This short guide is designed to help readers know how to make decisions that are based upon the values that matter to them.
Solving Problems: A Guide To Being a Person of Impact
All of us are solving problems all the time. We may not be aware of it because many of our problems keep reoccurring. In this short guide, I look at different ways we solve problems. My Circle of Impact model is a problem solving method that is universal in its application. Any and every problem can find a clear solution by using this model. To learn to be a problem-solving means that we become persons of impact. We make a difference that matters. Our world is better for it as a result.
Coming Next Year
If you have been a regular reader of my Substack posts, you will see that I have posted very little new material over the past several months. The reason is that I am looking at new year producing one, maybe two books.
I appreciate your response to the following questions.
I am looking at a follow-up to Circle of Impact where I break down the parts of the model to get at the depth of intention I have there. In other words, I’d write a chapter on each of the Four Connecting Ideas (Values, Purpose, Vision, and Impact), and on each of the Three Dimensions of Leadership (Ideas, Relationships, and Structure). I’ll expand upon what is in the original book with what I have learned over the past almost six years since I finished the final manuscript in January 2018. In some ways, I feel that I’ve learned more during these few years than I did in the almost two decades of creating the model. For those of you who have read Circle of Impact, let me know what else you see needs to be explored and what is missing.
I also see the need to explore more on the idea of transition. I have some material I created in the late 2000s. I’m interested in the questions that you may have about the idea of transition and, more importantly, the experience of transition in our world today.
The fourth section of Circle of Impact has been where much of my writing over the past two years has been focused. In some ways, I think there needs to be a more comprehensive treatment of what I’ve already written. If you look above at the different series of posts I have written, it feels like all those posts were explorations seeking something more definitive. Each of those series could be a book in itself. Maybe that is what I’ll do. I don’t know. What do you think? What do you want more of?
At the end of 2022, I had produced over 200,000 words on my Substack. That is equivalent to about 40 Circle of Impact books. The question is not how I can write more but rather how to be more direct and helpful in what I write. While I write at a high level of intellectual rigor, I am not trying to be obscure. I intentionally try to explain my observations in terms that people without an education of advanced degrees can understand. So, what you think matters more than you know. Tell me what you’d like more of and how I can better communicate through my writing for a broad audience in a world that is in transition.
Thank you very much.