Autoethnography of Two Scholars Whose Book on Prudence and the Authentic Self-Leadership Style of Theodore Roosevelt was Censored Due to COVID-19
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
12-1-2021 2:00 PM
End Date
12-1-2021 2:20 PM
Abstract
Since our initial presentation An Autoethnography of Two Scholars who Developed a Framework on Prudent Leadership Using a Quote from President Theodore Roosevelt, our journey to create a booklet series 20/20 Prudent Leadership was abruptly interrupted on April 25th, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. There, over the Zoom app, we sat dumbfounded in the Shelter in Place mandate more than 1,200 miles apart uploading our properly formatted Amazon Kindle and paperback versions of book two: Conversation, Conduct, Character, & COVID-19. As other entrepreneurial efforts we took advantage of our editorial position to work in an extra “C” for the coronavirus and the tsunami of death, destruction and economic calamity it claimed. We asked ourselves, “What would Theodore Roosevelt (TR) do during such a pandemic?” And just after our Kindle version was accepted and published the paperback sat idle and could not escape the grip of Amazon’s manuscript compliance algorithm. A new algorithm that would not allow any books with a COVID-19 title to be released. Our International Standard Book Number (ISBN), a requirement in the publishing business, was frozen, trapped in the behemoth’s book distribution system of oppression, while many titles on other controversial, egregious, and erroneous issues, continued to be released. Join two scholars to learn how they overcame book 2’s oppression and the journey to release all nine in the series culminated with a final single bound copy, public notoriety, reviews, and endorsements from a broad swath of leaders, trade publications, bloggers, and other TR admirers.
Keywords
COVID-19, prudence, self-leadership, decision-making, Theodore Roosevelt
Autoethnography of Two Scholars Whose Book on Prudence and the Authentic Self-Leadership Style of Theodore Roosevelt was Censored Due to COVID-19
Since our initial presentation An Autoethnography of Two Scholars who Developed a Framework on Prudent Leadership Using a Quote from President Theodore Roosevelt, our journey to create a booklet series 20/20 Prudent Leadership was abruptly interrupted on April 25th, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. There, over the Zoom app, we sat dumbfounded in the Shelter in Place mandate more than 1,200 miles apart uploading our properly formatted Amazon Kindle and paperback versions of book two: Conversation, Conduct, Character, & COVID-19. As other entrepreneurial efforts we took advantage of our editorial position to work in an extra “C” for the coronavirus and the tsunami of death, destruction and economic calamity it claimed. We asked ourselves, “What would Theodore Roosevelt (TR) do during such a pandemic?” And just after our Kindle version was accepted and published the paperback sat idle and could not escape the grip of Amazon’s manuscript compliance algorithm. A new algorithm that would not allow any books with a COVID-19 title to be released. Our International Standard Book Number (ISBN), a requirement in the publishing business, was frozen, trapped in the behemoth’s book distribution system of oppression, while many titles on other controversial, egregious, and erroneous issues, continued to be released. Join two scholars to learn how they overcame book 2’s oppression and the journey to release all nine in the series culminated with a final single bound copy, public notoriety, reviews, and endorsements from a broad swath of leaders, trade publications, bloggers, and other TR admirers.
Comments
This is the 2nd autoethnography journey that was initially presented at TQR11.