For a role as crucial as leadership, there is a shocking lack of required training on the topic. Combined with a tremendous collection of impenetrable literature, leadership is an essential skill learned on the job.
As of late 2025, with over 30k members, the Rands Leadership Slack (“RLS”) exists to help longtime, new, and aspiring leaders learn through conversation and the sharing of ideas.
And you want in. (Existing members can log in here.)
Great, let’s prove you’re a human. Here’s the process:
- Send an email from an email account you will use for a long time. Really. You’re going to have this account longer than your current job. If you want me to invite you to a different address than your return address, please tell me in the first line in ALL CAPS. This invite is done by hand, and I move fast.
- Read our Code of Conduct.
- This mail must include your name, occupation, the briefest of explanations of why you want to join this Slack, how you heard about us, and that you have read and accept our Code of Conduct.
- Also, include a link to your BlueSky, LinkedIn, Github, X, or Mastodon — any site demonstrating you’re a human.
- Failure to include the above information will result in another request for this information.
- None of the above information will be shared with anyone but Rands, the workspace owner.
Sent it? Super. I respond within 24 hours, but this is a deliberately manual process designed to make sure you are a human and not a robot.
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