In the spaces…

The Army consistently puts out some of the the highest quality leadership concepts.

Yet where the Army and most organizations struggle is closing the gap between knowledge of a concept and application of the concept.

One of the things I did poorly for many years was fail to differentiate urgent and important issues from everything else. As a result, I would often interact with my teammates after duty hours regarding issues that could wait until the following duty day for no other reason that it was on my mind.

“Sounds become music in the spaces between notes… just as words are created by the spaces between letters. It is in the spaces between doing and work that love, friendship, depth, and dimension are nurtured. Without time for recovery our lives become a blur of doing unbalanced by much opportunity for being.”