I’ve been toying with the idea for a while of doing something else with the book.
There’s the PDF version, which much to my surprise really doesn’t attract much interest, and then there’s the blog, which basically draws its material from the book (I do change the voice and cut things down quite a bit, so […]

If you’re a Computerworld reader, check out the October 9, 2006 edition. It features an article by me that focuses on how you can start leading and developing your leadership career talents from your first day on the job.

There are lots of little skills and bits of attitude and information you need to pull together to make a complete person, and the same is true in making a complete leader or a even complete employee. No one collection of tips, insights, tricks, and anecdotes can fully prepare you for anything interesting.
Find a foundation, […]

My plan is to run these View from the Top guest leader special articles about once a month, but I have the first two lined up and I think they’re both great, so I wanted to go ahead and run them both right away.
You may have noticed that I’m running these a little longer than […]

Some of you may have noticed a couple weeks ago when I added the header to the web site that I included a reference to something called “View from the Top”.
Today I’d like to introduce that new occasional series that we’ll be running about once a month here at onlytraitofaleader.com. In View from the Top […]

If you’re following along in the book (shameless plug!), you’ll have noticed that we’ve covered pretty much everything in the first chapter on leadership philosophy.
This is not to say that there won’t be any more discussion of philosophical point-of-view issues. But the rest of those discussions will be more focused on a specific context: leading […]

Several of you have been asking me when the printed version of the book would be available, and I’ve been saying “oh, a couple weeks…” for at least a month now.
Well, the ducks are finally all lined up. The printed copies are winging their way towards me even as we speak, and I’ve updated the […]

I already mentioned this, but while a lot of the material on the site comes from the book, reading this site won’t be like reading a book.
The book covers five broad topics (leadership philosophy, managing and leading people, writing, speaking, and managing your own career) in two major areas (leadership philosophy and skills of the […]

While I expect that this will change a lot as time goes on, I do have a rough idea for the way I see things going with this site over the next several months.
I’ll be concentrating on touching on many of the topics from the book, so if you want more detail or want to […]

I’m a big fan of technology. Not just computers and software, mind you, but all of the technology that makes the world go ’round. I’m talking bridges, medicine, buildings, light bulbs, roads. Everything.
I’m an engineer, and techno-love isn’t uncommon among engineers. There are oodles of us fueling the success of sites like LifeHacker, MacMinute, and […]