Sublimating...
Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 5:07PM Dateline: still in that nice hotel, Washington DC, 2 February 2006
Whirlwind days of meetings at Steve DeAngelis' side. If I can't rule the world through my vision, I'm making a decent run at conquering it at the big man's side. Enterra Solutions is so hot right now, our biggest problem is figuring out how to grow fast enough--whether it's in the commercial sector or the federal one. And the development-in-the-box concept is generating its own particular buzz with a network of thinkers and do-ers that I'm most excited to be associated with right now--to include Steve especially.
All this and word that Jack McElroy, editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel really liked my first column and will run it Sunday after next, softens the blow that comes with the news that my PR people yet again failed to get C-SPAN excited enough to cover a pair of DC briefs I'll be giving tomorrow (one for CSIS and one for the Navy). Just can't figure it out, but honestly, it was Brian Lamb who made it last time, and I think we just didn't make the connection to him this time, so no amount of jawboning with the C-SPAN execs is going to change that.
Eventually, I think I'll get another brief on TV, but frankly, the possibility of getting the column more widely read is far better. Nothing like building up the built-in audience, and a couple dozen columns each year, plus the usual 2-3 in Esquire and the continued high frequency with the Leigh Bureau's speaking gigs, and I should be in good shape for Vol. III with somebody.
That is, if Enterra doesn't capture all my attention this year with this rocket-ride of a trajectory.
I mean, it's all fun and games to write about globalization and technology, but even cooler to actually pull some of it off.
And if I haven't thanked all those readers enough who sent me all those emails when I was forced out by the Naval War College exactly a year ago this weekend, all those people who said I'd be so much better off and so much happier and more charged and challenged by all the opportunities that awaited me, then let me do so again tonight.
If I'm still at the college, then there's no BFA, no contributing editor at Esquire, no regular newspaper column, no Leigh Bureau, no Steve DeAngelis, no Enterra Solutions and whatever that monster eventually grows into, no Frank Akers and Oak Ridge National Lab gig, no gig at Howard Baker at U. Tenn (go Vols!), no move to Indy, no new house, no crappy apart--damn! Knew I was pushing my luck.
Reader Comments (4)
No C-SPAN taping? Come on. At $36+ a pop for the DVDs they've got to be making a killing off your briefs. Surely they will soon realize the error of their ways!
C-SPAN has no idea what they are missing. Besides simply introducing me to your work while I was in South Korea (CSPAN via AFN), CSPAN attained a loyal viewer because I realized the shows addressed issues that affected my life. Isnt that what all corporations should be about? Especially ones where the product goes directly to the public.
Drat! C-SPAN
Carla
Things do work out!