A Secret CIA Leadership Tool

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Elite spy agencies need leaders just like every other corporate organization. But the way they find and cultivate their leaders is very different than what you read about in leadership books and see advertised on your LinkedIn feed. In this episode, Andrew explains the simple secret to how CIA develops and trains their leaders to do what others can't and go where other's won't.

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.
0:25.2	One of the corporate buzzwords that I hear the most often that really frustrates me is the word
0:32.8	leadership.
0:33.2	And everyone has an opinion about leadership, where what leadership is, what leadership isn't,
0:39.9	how you know if you're a leader.
0:41.4	And then, of course, everyone has some kind of book or some kind of training or some kind
0:46.4	of TED talk suggestion so that you can learn more about leadership.
0:52.1	When I went through training at the agency and even after I left
0:56.0	the agency and saw what corporate life was like through the eyes of a spy, I realized very
1:02.3	quickly that the world doesn't understand leadership for what it really is. Instead, it's
1:07.5	turned into this commodity for trade and for sale. So I wanted to just take a few minutes and share with you what I have seen through my agency
1:16.2	experience and what the CIA trained in me as the understanding of what leadership is and
1:21.0	what leadership isn't.
1:22.4	Now first, leadership is something everybody has.
1:25.1	It's something that you're born with.
1:26.7	It's intrinsic. It's not something that you have to develop.
1:31.3	It's not something you have to grow.
1:32.3	It's something you already have.
1:34.3	It's like your eyes.
1:35.3	Some people have green eyes.
1:37.3	Some people have blue eyes, but by and large, we're all born with eyes.
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