Social Change & Activism discussion

Hi all,
I am announcing a hardcover giveaway of Executive Leadership: A Warfighter's Perspective. The book is a work of creative nonfiction focused on leadership, sources of motivation, and team discipline. Any feedback would be treasured. It is only peripherally related to social justice, but my source of integrity is fundamentally based on the defense of civil liberties.

Here are two excerpts:

Too often, leadership is assumed rather than considered. Implied rather than piloted. It takes thoughtful communication to develop the potential of those under one’s charge. Organizational climates require molding, lest unhealthy ones smolder unchecked. Leadership properly executed is a calculated act. There are thousands of ways to skin this cat, but one certainty is that the skinning should be surgical.

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
Hampton Beach, NH