Forget Mondays
A community of leaders getting better
Leadership doesn’t usually break loudly.
It erodes quietly, in moments we misread or avoid.
Forget Mondays started as a place to work through that reality in public. Over time, it’s become a weekly field guide for leaders navigating the quiet, uncertain parts of building teams.
Each issue brings together reflection, practical lessons from the field, and outside perspectives that help make sense of the work.
If you care about building teams thoughtfully and making better decisions when outcomes aren’t obvious, you’ll feel at home here.
Perspectives from leaders in the trenches.
Experience is often how we measure leadership. Titles, tenure, outcomes. But perspective is just as revealing, especially when it comes from the lived reality of leading people.
Each week, The Leader’s Journal will feature a perspective worth sitting with. Sometimes that will be an OpEd from a leader sharing their own experience. Other times, it will be a piece or idea surfaced from the broader leadership conversation.
The common thread is simple. These perspectives come from people in the work, shaping teams and decisions in ways that rarely make the spotlight.
If you’re a leader with a perspective you’d like to share, I’m always open to submissions and ideas. You can send them to ardig@leadershipev.com.
Meet your author: Ardi Ghasemi
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If you’ve somehow made it this far, let’s address the biggest question; Why the f*** would you read something I wrote? I’ll spare you the underdog tale and say I’ve seen some things in my 10 years of building sales organizations. I was lucky at the age of 23 to lead a small sales team that went from $0 to $5m+ annual revenue. From there I became obsessed with building teams from the ground up. I also had a crappy boss at one time, so I want to influence a world where that type of leader does not thrive.