Back at it!
Back again!
For all of you getting this on January 5, I have taken my old defunct newsletter The Networked Leader and transitioned it substack. Thanks for still being interested and I hope that stick around and get something out of this new newsletter.
Welcome to Collaborative Musings.
My name is JOE Houde and I have been designing and teaching leadership development for 35 years. In that time I have earned a Masters in Training and Development, a Doctorate in Adult Learning and taught in over a dozen countries. Over the years my work has focused on experiential learning, learning design, social networks and organizational development. In the past few years I have found that play, networks and performance overlap nicely as a way to understand collaboration. This newsletter is me publicly exploring that idea and sharing it with the world.
As the name suggests, this newsletter will be about collaboration, but also about other bits and bobbles that gain my attention. My goal with the newsletter is three-fold:
To turn my work over the past 2 years interviewing people and researching collaboration into a manuscript that I can publish as a book.
To foster a practice and discipline of writing for myself.
To build an audience for the book I publish.
The second point is why I including the musings - some days I am drawn to write about things that aren't directly related to my work on collaboration, so I needed to give myself permission to write about whatever. Some weeks I may just write about why I didn't write. I have found in the past few years that I have a lot of interesting and compelling reasons that I didn't write. Not valid, but interesting and compelling.
In any case, I am committing to a newsletter very week for all of 2024.
If you are just finding this I am excited to have you be part of the third goal. If you are one of the folk I have carried over from days past and you are staying around, Please tell a friend you think might be interested. .
If you want more than this quick intro, you can find more information on me at joehoude.com and you can listen to many of my interviews at my podcast, Mandatory Cocktail Hour. Also feel free ask questions here or reply to the newsletter.
I look forward to collaboratively musing with you!