Business | Four-Star General Stanley McChrystal | The Man Who Helped to Capture Saddam Hussein Shares His Keys for Leading Teams Effectively
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On today's show, we interview the retired United States four-star general on the keys |
| 0:08.3 | for leading teams effectively. |
| 0:10.8 | After graduating from West Point, Stanley McCrystal, steadily and diligently moved his |
| 0:15.6 | way up the ranks of the United States military. |
| 0:18.8 | Eventually, he became the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and |
| 0:23.5 | was the top commander of the American Forces in Afghanistan during the early and mid-2000s. |
| 0:30.4 | General Stanley McCrystal is credited with the December 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein. |
| 0:36.0 | Yes, this is the man credited with the capture of Saddam Hussein and the 2006 location |
| 0:42.5 | and removal of, okay, just at least give me some background music to hide behind. |
| 0:46.7 | Or three attempts to do this read right. |
| 0:48.6 | In June of 2006, General McCrystal, the four-star general, was responsible for locating and |
| 0:55.0 | removing Abu Masab al-Zar Qwai, let me try again, Abu Masab al-Zar Qawi, that sounded better. |
| 1:07.6 | Okay, here we go, Abu Masab al-Zar Qawi. |
| 1:11.0 | The point is he was the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and General McCrystal and his team wiped |
| 1:16.4 | him out, blew him up, eliminated him, got him off of the planet, killed the terrorists, |
| 1:23.0 | mass-making America, more safe. |
| 1:25.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure to introduce to you the retired four-star general, |
| 1:30.9 | Stanley McCrystal. |
| 1:33.9 | Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show dies. |
| 1:40.2 | Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women, 13 multi-million dollar businesses, |
| 1:48.4 | ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrine time show. |
| 1:52.5 | Two, one, here we go. |
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