This post will have no meaningful content. It will serve as a link-able repository of why I set this up in the original and what disclaimers need to be mentioned or considered. Here goes.....
Scope: The scope will be fairly limited. I don't intend to post a lot. I don't have huge readership metrics. Not even close. But what I do write and will write will be well thought out, experience based, and intended to be helpful.
Mission: I intend to have this as a repository of thoughts on leadership issues. These will include: organizational leadership; handling difficult people; handling difficult situations; leading through change; fallacies; and several other topics relevant to leadership. If or when an external stakeholder wishes to know my thoughts on leadership issues and aptitudes, I can possibly point them to the posts I plan to write in coming years.
Disclaimers:
1. I write for myself. My thoughts are not representative of the policies or actions of any of my full-time or part-time employers, past, present, or future.
2. Experiences will prompt thoughts leading to blog posts. Those experiences may originate in my personal workplace. I will do everything possible to generalize the situations and thoughts prompted. I will try to temporally separate the prompting issue from the actual blog post. I will anonymize people, places, etc. I won't be perfect in this effort. If a reader detects any connection and believes I am passively aggressively trying to win hearts and minds on a workplace issue, they should immediately cease such a belief. Usually, I have spoken out on the workplace issue already. I'm fairly direct....not passive aggressive. And yet, if the casual reader comes along and makes a connection and it helps them, then any progress made is a wonderful benefit.
3. I'm no leadership guru. I have participated in a number of high profile leadership trainings, experiences, camps, etc. So I do believe I have something to offer. I will welcome feedback, either on the blog, or via social media if this is shared.
4. I retain authorial copyright for all original thoughts, examples, anecdotes, ideas and ways of explaining things. Let me remind you - just link to the post. No need to steal intellectual property.
5. "From The Trenches" is first of all just a colloquialism. But sorta specific to me, it implies that I do a lot of uncredited leadership from the trenches. I've been overlooked for a lot of leadership posts - volunteer and employer-based - that I really deserved, so I'm stuck 'in the trenches.' I do get some things done in the trenches, and sadly, often see others take credit for what I did, but it is what it is, and I hope some day the good Lord allows it to change.
Thanks for reading.
