After reading a particularly good Substack earlier this evening, I realized how much I miss writing myself. Of course, as a CEO, I write every day. E-mails, Slack messages, and the like. That sounds rudimentary, I know. Don’t worry I have not let Chat GPT entirely take over my writing activities (or my team’s). In truth, I write a lot more than that— I am even working on a novel that I have not made much progress on in a while.
It will likely take me time to write in a way that is as honest as I want to, in the same way, that I get drawn in by other writers. There’s something about being a business owner and having a personal brand that keeps me within certain confines of self-imposed acceptability. I want to remain palatable, I guess.
I decided to call this “The Transformative CEO” because I have been on a path of transformation for a long time—we all are, of course. I also encourage others to push for transformation in their own lives, for better or for worse, whatever that means.
I’m not striving for perfection here even though as I write this I think about how imperfect it is and want to press the back button. What I want to strive for is honesty— about the simultaneous clunkiness and excitement of having the title “CEO” and what it means especially to have given the title to myself.
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Who said the awkward, pensive musings have to be relegated to the artsy substacks?