My Company Is Paying for My Ghostwritten Book. Who Owns It If I Leave?
When your company pays for your ghostwritten book, ownership depends on the paperwork, not the byline. Here are the three common setups and what happens to the book if you leave.
Tag: Executive Ghostwriting
Ghostwriting for technical executives and founders who want their career and judgment on the record. From someone who ran enterprise technology for two decades and writes the leadership story inside the technical one.
Executive GhostwritingShould I Hire a Ghostwriter to Write About My Business Failing?
A book about your business failing can rebuild a career, if it tells the truth about what went wrong. Here's how to write it without shame running it, and without legal trouble.
Business BooksExecutives Delegate Everything Except the One Thing That Builds Their Brand
You delegate contracts, campaigns, and code without a second thought. Then the book, the highest-leverage brand asset you'll ever own, gets reserved for your own two hands. The paradox, examined.
Digital TransformationWhat a Snow-Locked Water District Taught Me About AI
In 1980 a snow-locked water district faced a problem the era's technology could not solve: pumping stations cut off from central command for weeks each winter, with the water still needing to flow. The team built autonomous controllers in Pascal…
Executive GhostwritingThe Technical Founder’s Memoir, Told Honestly
The technical founder built something real, and the story of building it deserves a book, not the pitch-deck version, the honest one: the technical decisions that made or broke the company, the nights it nearly died, what you actually learned.…
Executive GhostwritingThe Technology Executive’s Memoir Nobody Is Writing
The technology executive's career is a real story almost nobody captures: the arc from writing code to running the whole operation, the disasters survived, the political fights to fund critical work, the teams built and led. I lived that arc,…
Digital TransformationDigital Transformation When You’re Not a Tech Company
Most digital transformation advice assumes you build software. I ran it for a retailer whose actual business was selling things, which is harder and different in ways the advice ignores, your transformation competes with the real business for money and…
Change ManagementPeople, Process, Technology: The Order That Makes Transformation Work
Do digital transformation in this order: people, process, technology. People first, always, asking what happens to each person, retrained, retired, moved where. Process next, where you often find the process is just broken and fixing it solves the problem with…
Digital TransformationThe Boardroom and the Server Room Speak Different Languages
The hardest part of running technology was never the technology; it was that leadership spoke business while I spoke tech, and neither of us understood the other. I did not grasp how much that cost until the CEO of Trader…
Change ManagementWhy Digital Transformations Actually Fail
Most digital transformations fail for an unglamorous reason: poor testing. Everyone checks whether the system works normally; almost nobody tests it under real load or watches what happens when it breaks. I saw systems go live with untuned queries that…
Cloud ComputingDigital Transformation Is Plumbing
Digital transformation is plumbing. The buzzword suggests a bold leap; the real work is infrastructure, one component at a time. I led enterprise transformations at a national retailer, and the method that worked was never a big bang, it was…
Digital TransformationWordPress Reality: What Nobody Tells You About Building a Website with WordPress and Elementor
You installed WordPress and Elementor expecting simple, and walked straight into an advanced engineering course. Every tutorial promised easy; none mentioned the plugin conflicts, the mobile layouts that explode, the update that takes the site down. WordPress is a house…