For twenty years, I stayed silent. I had fought my battles in Afghanistan—but the hardest battles were against the institution I had once sworn to serve with honor.
“Reflection is a process whereby we examine the past to learn from our actions and behaviors. It provides an opportunity to view ourselves as the subject, removed from the immediacy of the moment, and pick apart our thoughts about our previous decisions, actions, and behaviors. In an ongoing conscious transaction with the past, reflective thought involves contemplating both into the past and into the future to determine if past experiences and perceptions align with current reality and future desires.”
― My Green Notebook: "Know Thyself" Before Changing Jobs
― My Green Notebook: "Know Thyself" Before Changing Jobs
“As Edward O. Wilson says, “In our daily lives we imagine ourselves to be aware of everything in the immediate environment. In fact, we sense fewer than one thousandth of one percent of the diversity of molecules and energy waves that constantly sweep around and through us.”
― Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
― Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
“All human history is under the influence of the false-self system that easily moves from our hearts into our families, communities, and nations and then afflicts the whole human race. God invites us to take responsibility for being human and to open ourselves to the unconscious damage that is influencing our decisions and relationships.”
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
“Through pursuing the path with friends and the promptings of life, I began to see that my way forward was through the conscious development of qualities born from what I understood as “heart,” such as care and compassion, and replacing judgmental reactiveness with more kindness.”
― Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart
― Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart
“In spite of its undeniable power, so many leaders struggle to embrace organizational health (which I’ll be defining shortly) because they quietly believe they are too sophisticated, too busy, or too analytical to bother with it. In other words, they think it’s beneath them.”
― The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
― The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
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Dr. Ken Lang is a retired detective from the Baltimore County Police Department. During his tenure, he spent 15 years investigating violent crimes, in ...more
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