I have written more than a 100 blog posts about leadership, strategy, and culture. Within that portfolio are several accounts of business reinvention and transformation. Yet it was only a few months ago that I composed my first post on another type of reinvention: personal reinvention. My own. 

You see, after I departed the corner office I had this crazy idea to write a thrilling historical novel. The means to that end was a lonely trek up a perilous mountain, its peak masked by high clouds. Along the way I faced several hazards and setbacks, and had I not summoned the traits that helped me succeed as a CEO, The Circumstantial Enemy would never have come to fruition. For eight years, inspiration, passion, discipline, determination, and vision edged me upward to the summit of publishing’s Promised Land.

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