Long-time blog readers will remember my lengthy agonizing in print about whether or not I should write a sequel to PNM. I simply had to work out that logic and rationale in the blog, which is the purpose it serves for my thinking (especially in recording it).

I get so many emails that either challenge my career or ask for career advice, plus my work for Esquire has taken a turn toward examining individual-level (or led) change (Rumsfeld, now Mattis, Petraeus and Wallace), plus I'm doing such change agent stuff through Enterra, plus I get to spend so much time with this ball of change energy called Steve DeAngelis, plus my work with Frank Akers and Oak Ridge is all about taking advantage of all that learning and thinking going on there ... it just seems to be where the work is pulling me.

So the logic of Vol III seems clear enough to me (stories of such change and leadership, interspersed with my personal logic and career stories of building those skills in me and using them with others, plus the desired deeper drill down on SysAdmin, Dept of Everything Else, development-in-a-box--all of which are coming naturally to me through my ongoing work, speeches, email interactions, etc.--topped off with a direct, "release the inner grand strategist in you" sort of guidebook material), and yet you can expect me to spend a lot of time in this blog working these issues out in my head.

This will seem weirdly self-indulgent to some, inviting the usual charges of huge ego and self-absorption, but I will share such stuff because: 1) again, that's what the blog does for me, so f--k 'em if they can't take a joke!; 2) your advice has shaped my thinking and delivery a great deal (I hear voices as I write, in a good way); and 3) I just think it's cool to reveal that kind of stuff. Anyway, it beats making up autobiography and calling it non-fiction, right?