"Where is the rescue squad?" Two Delta snipers. One crashed Black Hawk. Hundreds of enemy fighters. They knew the odds. They went anyway. Leadership is not what YOU say when the room is safe. It is what YOU do when someone needs YOU and the cost is everything. Love shows up. Becoming BTL. Black Hawk … Continue reading Send ME
Author: Jim Gant
August 16th…; AND/BUT
Yesterday was August 15. Today is August 16th (17th). Almost five years to the day since Afghanistan fell apart in front of me AND so many others who had poured pieces of ourselves into that place (legs, arms, hearts, minds and souls). I wrote yesterday about the moral injury, the sorrow, the people left behind, … Continue reading August 16th…; AND/BUT
August 15th: What Remains…
August 15 is here. Five years have passed since Kabul fell and the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. For most people, this is another date on the calendar, another chapter in American history, another war to analyze, argue about, assign blame for and forget. Today does not register with most people I know. But for … Continue reading August 15th: What Remains…
Why Was American Football Invented?
It's Sunday. I can almost hear the game on.. There are games you play to pass the time. And then there are games designed to shape people. American football was created to do the latter. Long before billion-dollar television contracts, fantasy leagues and packed stadiums, football emerged in the late 1800s as a response to … Continue reading Why Was American Football Invented?
You good?
There are two words that have followed me out of war. They are not tactical. They are not complicated. They are not poetic. They are simply this: "You good?" That was it. No speeches. No counseling session. No motivational quote. Just two words thrown across a battlefield by one man who desperately needed to know … Continue reading You good?
BTL…Part II
In response to Chet's blog this AM...Live Hard. Love Harder...:) I do KNOW some people are born with an unusual capacity to lead. That's not arrogance. I think it's simply acknowledging reality. I've watched it since I was a little boy, as Chet mentioned. Before I ever knew what leadership really was - - - … Continue reading BTL…Part II
Thank you, Kitty…
Kitty, Thank you for the books! Leader Formation by Dr. Bill Lawrence has a special place in my head and heart. It has been as important as any book, except the Bible in my path to discipleship. It has had the same impact on my discipleship as Gates of Fire had on my path to … Continue reading Thank you, Kitty…
Slow down, please…?
The smartest and best man I have known jotted down some thoughts about hurry; I think they were posted in his kitchen when he died. “Hurry,” he wrote, “involves excessive haste or a state of urgency. It is associated with words such as hurl, hurdle, hurly-burly (meaning “uproar”), and hurricane.” He defined it as a … Continue reading Slow down, please…?
BUILT TO LEAD 