Welcome!
Three interrelated concepts challenge all professionals: Leadership, Management, and Life Planning.
While there is no single self-improvement text that covers it all (no ‘Bible’, so to speak), the United States military has published voluminous doctrines, techniques and processes to help Servicemembers improve in all of these areas.
Borrowing with Pride uses these excellent (but, outside of the Armed Forces, largely unknown) military manuals and publications to help you grow as a leader, manager, and planner of your own life.
I’m intrigued (or confused) and want more details.
Each week, Borrowing with Pride will send two dispatches:
Study. On Tuesdays. Free to all subscribers. It will include 10-15 minutes of content and reading with questions for reflection (example: Small Team Leadership).
Guided Discovery. On Thursdays. Available to paid subscribers only. It will include 20-40 minutes of discussion on the Study content, combined with thought exercises, reflections, and activity prompts to thoughtfully and deliberately apply lessons to your personal and professional life.
There will be occasional additional dispatches on topics of general interest that fit with the themes of Leadership, Management, and Life Planning.
The focus is on the practical and not the tactical. The training provided will help you become more thoughtful and methodical, but it will not equip you for a life in the trenches.
Why subscribe?
True to the title, you can borrow most everything provided with pride, and without payment. All themes and associated linked materials are free with an unpaid subscription. All reading materials are unclassified and provided by government through existing open source formats. Study dispatches are free.
But…a paid subscription will provide you with each Thursday’s Guided Discovery dispatch, which includes structured (but brief) analysis, thought-provoking questions, exercises, and discussion prompts (feel free to do this with a friend).
A paid subscription is access to rigor in your analysis and application of each week’s theme and serves as an accelerant to your success. Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and publication archives.
Who is producing this?
I’m Matt Pedersen. I’m borrowing with pride as your facilitator on this journey.
I’ve worked at McDonald’s, been an Officer in the military, and been a Managing Director / Partner at the world’s largest consultancy, working with the world’s most successful companies. In short, I’ve worked at and with every level of the biggest organizations on earth.
Everyone is looking for inspiration, a competitive edge, contrarian perspectives, a different frame of reference, and new ideas on how to lead, follow, and be happy in an increasingly complex world. I’ve spent a career contemplating the applicability of military concepts to both the business world and personal life, and I want to expand on this contemplation and share it with you.
We’re on this journey together, and if you have ideas on how to make it better, I’ll be happy to borrow with pride (and gratitude): matt @ borrowingwithpride.com
