Why did I begin?
3 min readJan 5, 2024
How I decided to write a book
I taught my first course on leadership in organizations in the late 1990s, when the internet was still shiny and new, when people were still debating whether email should be considered “official company communication,” and were wondering whether all computers would somehow implode when dates rolled over to 1/1/00 in an event ominously named “Y2K.”