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Miles Garrett

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“Executive Leadership distills hard-earned lessons from Miles Garrett’s military experience into practical, no-nonsense leadership insights. With a focus on morale, clear communication, and fostering excellence, Garrett provides a roadmap for leaders to inspire and empower their teams. This concise and compelling guide is essential reading for anyone looking to elevate their leadership skills and drive meaningful results.”
--Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. Dr. Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

“The broad topic of leadership—in the military, athletics, business, or in life in general—ha Editorial reviews for Executive Leadership:

“Executive Leadership distills hard-earned lessons from Miles Garrett’s military experience into practical, no-nonsense leadership insights. With a focus on morale, clear communication, and fostering excellence, Garrett provides a roadmap for leaders to inspire and empower their teams. This concise and compelling guide is essential reading for anyone looking to elevate their leadership skills and drive meaningful results.”
--Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. Dr. Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

“The broad topic of leadership—in the military, athletics, business, or in life in general—has been the subject of many speeches, books, and articles, but few accomplish the goal of conceptualizing this valuable commodity any better or more succinctly than former US Navy submarine officer Miles Garrett in Executive Leadership: A Warfighter’s Perspective. The basis of the work is a series of talks he prepared and delivered to fellow leaders while he served as Executive Officer on the nuclear submarine USS Cheyenne. His style is direct, understandable, and well-illustrated with examples and quotes from other proven leaders of men and women. Though heavy on suggestions for military personnel, Garrett’s ideas and philosophy apply just as well to anyone who is called upon to lead. And he presents them in a readable, understandable, and to-the-point way that makes his work a good addition to anyone’s library, but not simply to rest there spine out. No, Garrett’s tenets can and should be applied in daily life.”

--Don Keith, award-winning and best-selling author of more than thirty-five books, including Firing Point, which was the basis for the hit motion picture Hunter Killer, starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. Among other topics, Don has written extensively about World War II history. He sponsors the Untold Millions Project, an effort to encourage the capture and publication of eyewitness accounts of major historical events such as the Great Depression, World War II and other wars, the space program, the Civil Rights struggle, and more.
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How Can AI Get Simple Math Wrong?

Yesterday, I googled, “How is 51481 a Pythagorean prime?” AI’s top result said the following: “51481 is a Pythagorean prime because it can be expressed as the sum of two perfect squares: 51481 = 225^2 + 18^2.” But 225^2 + 18^2 = 50949.

AI has much to learn.

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Miles is Currently Reading

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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

by Dan Jones (Goodreads Author)

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Miles Garrett said: " Poetic and powerful. "

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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

by Immanuel Kant

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Miles Garrett said: " An introduction to the synthesis of epistemological philosophy. I couldn't get past the first page until my forties. I have now made it to about page ten. Kant's treatment of Hume is utterly hysterical. As of now, I cannot read more than three words ...more "

Dec 05, 2024 03:39PM · see review

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Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

by Ben Austen

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A fascinating first-person novel on the tragedy of slavery. Also published under the title Someone Knows My Name.
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Cynical but necessary.
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“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones. I could not find my way back to sleep.”
― Miles Garrett

tags: enslaved-quotes, enslavement, genocide, horror, horror-story, slavery, slavery-quotes

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“a rose for empathy

can my own beauty reflect off glass
again the pain subsides like matted walls
like hospital halls like gas and pills and sass
never can I dance in balls or prance through malls

my pelvic gird’ survives tacked back intact
i sigh relieved my paralysis stops
there died before my eyes the drunk in fact
who crashed and thrashed and mashed in flee of cops

by grace i stay a higher vertebrate
in this ordered peck of vine and line still mine
my skin and brain remain not celibate
those organs large and whole and sexed and fine

the drunk fared worse in life in death in time
my paraplegia dared curse his crime not mine”
― Miles Garrett

tags: disability, drunk-driving, empathy, human-sexuality, paraplegic

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“The country today bears striking similarity to the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. Our workforce drags aslumber. The primary focus of the majority of the national workforce prioritizes maximizing time off and contributing as little as required. Always in pursuit of that external motivation. Experiencing resentment rather than satisfaction. Why does it have to be that way? Why does it take a crisis to improve ourselves collectively? And what about on a submarine? Why does it take a war order to recognize the reality of action before consequence?”
― Miles Garrett, Executive Leadership: A Warfighter's Perspective

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“I once heard someone describe the Fall of Man as an allegory depicting humankind’s choice of knowledge over happiness. From time to time I catch wisps of this allegorical candle. Its fragrance so false yet no less real and tall. A fragrance like the middle passage, meant, nay, demanded to bear remembrance. Like Hill’s vulnerable soul deserving to be woken gently. Somehow still forgotten. The Fall of Man is chestnut only in its modern manner of telling, only in its mistranslation upon insisted. Where hides that in our national discourse? And why? Could someone please teach my children the great and conflicted nature of King David, and what was the source of Solomon’s wisdom? What of Job? Ruth? These lessons passed through time shall not pass with us. Au contraire, through us they shall pass. And yet still I struggle to convey these past lessons within the confines of my household.”
― Miles Garrett, Executive Leadership: A Warfighter's Perspective

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“I must not seem proud; happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

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“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: fragment-52, games, heraclitus, leisure, philosophy, play, time, wisdom

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“Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.”
― Heraclitus