3/4: REMEMBERING ON THE FOURTH:: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision by Admiral James Stavridis USN (Author)
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3/4: REMEMBERING ON THE FOURTH:: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision by Admiral James Stavridis USN (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Risk-All-Conflicts-Crucible-Decision/dp/0593297741/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk it All, he offers up nine of the most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year history, and draws from them a set of insights that we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices.
Conflict. Crisis. Risk. These words have a distinct meaning in a military context that we hope will never apply identically in our own lives. But at the same time, as Admiral Stavridis shows with great clarity, many lessons are universal.
To Risk it All is filled with thrilling and heroic exploits, but it is anything but a shallow exercise in myth burnishing. Every leader in this book has real flaws, as all humans do, and the stories of failure, or at least the decisions that have been defined as such, are as crucial as the stories of success. In the end, when this master class is concluded, we will be better armed for hard decisions both expected and not.
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| 0:24.8 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm John Bats with Admiral James Stavredis. |
| 0:29.2 | United States Navy retired. |
| 0:31.0 | His new book is to risk it all. |
| 0:33.4 | Nine conflicts and the crucible of decision. |
| 0:36.4 | We're taking lessons learned. |
| 0:38.5 | We go now to lesson five. |
| 0:40.7 | Do not get emotionally involved. |
| 0:43.3 | I just with Jim, this seems to be a filter that admirals have to go through when they |
| 0:49.6 | because the examples in his book are Farragot and then do he learning from Farragot |
| 0:55.0 | and then Halsey in the lady golf and actually through his career. |
| 1:01.4 | The raid on the marshals in 42 and certainly they do little raid and then Michelle Howard |
| 1:07.4 | not get emotionally involved. |
| 1:08.8 | What does that mean as an admiral knowing you're going to be blamed if something goes wrong? |
| 1:13.4 | Well, let's start with the point that all of these stories give us any of us. |
| 1:20.2 | Good lessons because everyone sooner or later faces a moment where you must risk it all. |
| 1:26.6 | Be it at a mass shooting, be it standing on a beach when someone's drowning in front of you. |
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