The Work Beneath the Work
Ted LeonhardtEssays on creative leadership, culture, and becoming
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Creative Success
I lined up early to disembark, thinking about the staff meeting I was to chair at eight. It had been a foggy crossing, clearing now as we approached the slip.
Gulls circled and squawked.
The boat’s reversing props churned the water, slowi...
Moxi
“We were inside Starbucks for years. We know who signs off on packaging, and we know which ideas died in review, and why. You won’t have to brief us twice.”
“We wrote six-page memos for Amazon Devices for eight years. Give us your launch o...
I miss my W-2
A fire hose of water on the skylights pulls me out of a bad dream. Rain.
Still dark, I roll over, my hand following the charge cord to find my phone. Find it. Turn it upright to get the screen to light.
It’s three AM.
Drop the phone on t...
She Read Page 144 Out Loud
Jennifer, Chicago police officer, then a detective. She’s an adoptee. She wrote a play about her story. Then 2020 shut the theaters. The actors had rehearsed; she didn’t want their work to go to waste, so she recorded it and posted online....
Stop Being the Bank
Sketch of Hugh Francis from a photo announcing him as a Meta Foundation Hospitality 3.0 Symposium speaker
I recently wrote about Microsoft offering buyouts to 60,000 people, part of a trend moving work from salaried staff to contractors. T...
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