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The Work Beneath the Work

Ted Leonhardt

Essays on creative leadership, culture, and becoming

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Turning Point: Phantasmagoria

I pulled my suit from the steaming bathroom, hoping the wrinkles had dropped out, and thought about my first meeting of the day. It was on the east side, with Sierra On-Line.

We’d been doing some packaging design for them the last few mont...

21 days ago
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Becoming: Nice

The plane landed hard.

Waking me from a running dream. Running backwards. Already slipping away. What was I running from? Couldn’t pull it up.

Shaking it off and remembering why I was in Nice.

First the hotel for a quick shower, then a m...

23 days ago
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Becoming: Tokyo, 1999

We pass through Nissan’s brightly lit lobby. I can feel the tension rising. I think through my checklist. Laptop, got it. Speakers, yep. Projector, yep. Cables, power cords, yep, got ‘em all. Ben Katano, our man in Japan, checks us in with...

24 days ago
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Becoming: The Learning

The smoke curled up from his cigarette perched on the ashtray. An ashtray made from the base of an artillery shell.

I didn’t know that then.

Sitting together on the edge of the bed. Dad’s arm is around me and across our laps is a book abo...

a month ago
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Advisory Notes: Help Me Understand

I found myself watching a big black fly beating against the sunny window. That must hurt.

Avoidance. I’m really good at it.

Leslie had just presented a solution in staff that was so convoluted that no one would get it. It was cute, I’ll g...

a month ago
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