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Stanley McChrystal - How To Lead

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General Stanley McChrystal, the former four star general who served for thirty-four years in the US Army. In 2003 he was directly involved in the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. In 2006 his forces were responsible for the death of the Al-Qaeda leader Musab al-Zarqawi. And in 2009, he took command of all American and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Following his public retirement in 2010, he became a senior fellow at Yale University and co-founded the McChrystal Group. In his new book Leaders, Myth & Reality, he explores what leadership really means, debunking, the many myths.
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Chapters

00:00 | Trailer
03:15 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
05:37 Brian’s introduction
06:14 London from a military perspective,07:41 Stan learned of leadership and team management skills from early love of naval history
08;35 The myths and realities of Horatio Nelson’s captaincy and leadership in battle
11:00 Past heroic leaders were flawed men, thus encouragingly, many more of us are capable of leadership
13:01 Stan explains what he meant by “I don’t even remember events in my own leadership correctly”
16:10 West Point in the 1970s
19:20 A leader’s daily habits and intentional discipline confirm their team’s faith in them when observed daily21:06 Why Stan found Special Forces a disappointment and got fired
25:22 Learning to combine his military role with political and intelligence agency agendas
32:55 Building relationships with Washington D
C
when working in the field of war
37:19 Resistance to fundamental change in operational methodology required to deal with Al Qaeda in Iraq
42:36 Explaining collateral damage to the civilian public and justifying it to himself
44:14 Why the abuse of Iraqi detainees occurred in Abu Ghraib prison and why he took responsibility
49:27 Torture is effective, people will talk, however, he showed The Battle of Algiers to Force leaders
54:04 Stan appointed to take charge in Afghanistan in midst of new President Obama administration conflict
1:03:01 Stan reflects on the aftermath of the Rolling Stones article and his subsequent resignation,1:09:11 How Stan deals with the periodic times when his brain recalls what went wrong
1:12:07 The McChrystal Group and writing ‘Leaders, Myth, and Reality,’1:17:17 Good leadership leads to everyone working to solve the problem not working to execute directives
1:19:42 The book investigates the leadership style of historical leaders in different genres
1:25:39 The American people desperately need to look in the mirror now about leadership and their role in it
1:27:14 Stan’s daily habit which is non-negotiable
1:28:11 What his friends would say was his superpower
1:29:46 Worst and best days of his life
1:31:15 Two very topical scenarios that scare him
1:34:18 Something that may surprise you about Stan, it surprised him
1:36:00 Phone call to the twenty years old Stanley McChrystal
1:37:27 Best advice ever received
1:40:07 Success Secrets
1:40:44 Brian’s summing up.

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