A Hundred Wild Words
Everything in your inbox wants something from you. This doesn’t.
A daily email for the person at the top, to help you see what you’re dealing with before everyone else needs you to deal with it.
A hundred words or fewer. A minute to read. Free.
Your email address
The first one arrives on the next working morning. If it gets something right, reply. I read them.
Rather email? daily@wildleadership.co
An example.
Four beers in before I had the guts to say the workshop was a waste of time.
I knew it weeks in advance. It was in the scope of work. Nobody wanted to hand back the fee. I wrote on sticky notes. I voted with my stars. Just like everybody else. It took me four beers to have the guts to say this. Too late. I should have called this out well ahead of the wasted day. But I didn’t because I was more worried about rocking the boat than I was about wasting time and money.
For years, I checked my phone before I got out of bed.
There was nearly always something waiting. Someone unhappy. Something behind. A number going the wrong way. A message from the board that needed thinking about before I had even made coffee.
You probably know the feeling. The day has started before you have.
And there are things about the job that are hard to talk about with anyone.
The thing you think the board is getting wrong. The problem nobody else seems quite worried enough about. The decision you already know you need to make but haven’t.
Most leadership writing tells you how to do the job better.
This is about what it’s like to be the person doing it.
I wanted something like that when I was in it.
So now I write one.
The first one arrives on the next working morning.