Last week I attended a live interview of Carl Bernstein, the iconic Watergate story reporter, who at a young age uncovered the abuses of power and deception in the Nixon White House and reported them with Bob Woodward to cause Nixon to depart the presidency, in shame.

He told how he persevered against the odds, how he and Woodward resisted threats and tied threads together to weave unfathomable plots and schemes.

But the one story he told that really stuck with me was an incident in the midst of his reporting, when the White House subpoenaed his investigation notes, to squash any further PR or legal damage to Nixon. These intrepid reporters approached Katherine Graham, tough and foresighted Publisher of the Washington Post, to advise her that his notes were sought.

She replied, as he recounted, “those are not your notes, they are my notes.”

The audience gasped. I blurted, “That’s leadership.”

Hers was a powerful statement, one of vision, staring down a threat. Bernstein told the story with aplomb: a situation that seemed impossible, resisted to allay the threat, arose from what seemed the abyss, and emerged valiantly, yet stronger than before.

Now that’s a story.

I will add my LinkedIn lens: tell your story, and tell it well, in ways we want to know more, crave deeper understanding, can learn for later usage, which added to the accumulating wealth of your, and thus, our experience.

“Why” you on your LinkedIn profile?

Why you in short posts and comments to add to the collective wisdom we access there?