Yup, that's what the sign said as the homeless guy approached my car offering me a "free" window wash along Highway 101 in San Jose. I should have noticed the "Intel Inside" T-shirt he was wearing and the 1,000 yard stare on his face.

It seems like everyone wants content these days. Just look around the Internet and you'll see the various and sundry blog sites and E-zines that want your thoughts. Heck some will even pay. Then look at what's actually offered up out there - some if good, very good in fact, but much of what's available to the www faithful is just a random collection of thoughts and mutterings.

Cadetstuff is one of those rare exceptions - a web journal with lots of great content that is even organized along some pretty specific lines for ease of navigation. When I was first brought into this CS job (as a result of the gravitational collapse of the stars NIN-1 and Stanford-2) I decided that we should lay out a few guidelines for how the leadership column will function. While I have my ideas and opinions, I would certainly like to hear input from the field as well. Afterall, CS serves you, the Cadets and their leaders, so this tool should be as user-friendly as possible.

First off, hats off to Matt Heusser who certainly took the leadership editor ball and ran with it, through 1,927 chapters of "Leading the Way" and his other various contributions to CS. Thanks for leaving behind big shoes for me to fill. I want to continue on with Matt's series idea. I would like to see the Leadership column function as a "best practices" guide of sorts - a place within a place that's already dedicated to sharing best practices (that would be CS.org in case you weren't paying attention). So send me your ideas, tips, tricks, anecdotes, recipes (and not recipes for kielbasa and kraut - NIN provides me with plenty of those), and stories of what has worked for you as a leader, or as a follower.

Rather than create a bunch of bins right off the bat and then try and fill those, send me what you've got. Got a great tip about how to teach facing movements? Have an idea about how to be a better instructor? Know something about good leaders? Spent some time as a leader, or as a follower? You gt the idea. Send me what you've got and I'll organize it, maybe combine a few like tales, and collectively we can give rise to a fun to write/read and informative leadership column. Get me your stuff by email - berghorn@msu.edu works best and then get ready to see your name in lights.