A memoir of a young man who walked into history on a cold morning in Stillwater — and of the line of ink that runs from the front yard, through the classroom, all the way to the boardroom. Forthcoming.
"We didn't set out to make history. We set out to make a holiday real — and to keep a line we could stand behind."
Oklahoma State, the early 1980s. A student body finding its voice, a holiday not yet won, and a young man — the son of a family that built everything it had — stepping to the front of a movement that would change his campus and his life.
What followed included a night no one who was there will forget: a cross, burning in front of a fraternity house, and the choice that came with it — fear, or forward. The Longest Line of Ink is the story of what comes after the defining moment: three decades of building companies, teams, and people — from IBM and GE Capital to the boardrooms of Viacom and Comcast/NBCUniversal — and the practice of transferring everything learned along the way.
Part history, part leadership book, part love letter to the people who kept the line moving — it is, above all, a book about what we write down, and why the ink has to outlast us.
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