Where Meditations on Management Came From - Unfinished ideas, wintering, and the discipline of attention
Sun Jan 11 2026
Meditations on Management didn’t begin as a book.
It began as fragments — unfinished articles, notes made between meetings, and observations that felt true enough to keep but not yet ready to finish.
In this episode, I reflect on how those ideas were allowed to rest in what I call my “digital cabinet,” how time and distance revealed the patterns between them, and why patience and attention matter more than productivity when it comes to meaningful work.
This is a quiet episode about noticing, wintering, and letting ideas mature — and about what that process has to teach us about leadership, clarity, and the conditions in which good work emerges.
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Meditations on Management didn’t begin as a book. It began as fragments — unfinished articles, notes made between meetings, and observations that felt true enough to keep but not yet ready to finish. In this episode, I reflect on how those ideas were allowed to rest in what I call my “digital cabinet,” how time and distance revealed the patterns between them, and why patience and attention matter more than productivity when it comes to meaningful work. This is a quiet episode about noticing, wintering, and letting ideas mature — and about what that process has to teach us about leadership, clarity, and the conditions in which good work emerges.