111: General Stanley McChrystal | Deconstructing Myths of Great Leadership
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
General Stanley McChrystal (@StanMcChrystal) is a retired four-star general, founder of McChrystal Group, and co-author of Leaders: Myth and Reality.
What We Discuss with General Stanley McChrystal:- What General McChrystal learned by reexamining one of his most controversial personal heroes.
- The counterintuitive ability of leaders who value their own mission over the lives of the people who work for them to attract talent.
- How writing his memoirs without the aid of a journal -- but the memories of others who were with him throughout his life -- put his own role as a leader into perspective.
- Why there's no single leadership style that's right for all leaders, and what potential leaders risk by trying to emulate styles that don't suit them.
- The danger of these three common myths of leadership -- formulaic, attribution, and results -- and how to dispel them.
- And much more...
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| 0:31.3 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:32.6 | As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
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