Major General Dan Caine, Randall Stutman, Robert Greene, and Jeni Britton Bauer on Becoming a Great Leader | This is The Truly Inexcusable Thing

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and looks back at some of the best interviews from the Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge. Ryan talks to Major General Dan Caine about the importance of defining success before you set out to try to solve a problem, Randall Stutman about the important distinction in being subtle and being manipulative, how great leaders see themselves as stewards, not owners, Robert Greene about their experiences and lessons learned from watching American Apparel’s unhinged CEO run a publicly traded company into the ground, and Jeni Britton Bauer about how she thinks about the tension between being efficient and having the highest standards.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcasts early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.1	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short
0:20.0	passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays
0:27.5	We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure
0:34.0	Fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and
0:40.9	Also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
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1:00.7	Wondering listen to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts
1:07.7	This is the truly inexcusable thing
1:11.6	Sena come one said quoting Fabius that the only inexcusable thing for a commander to say was I did not think that could happen
1:19.1	And of course he is right the job of a leader is to be prepared to have a plan to anticipate all possible and probable outcomes
1:27.7	Whether it's a military campaign a creative project or a business negotiation
1:32.7	This is why the Stoics practiced pre-Metitacio Malorum and made a point of always doing their hard-winter training
1:40.2	But in truth what is worse than not doing the training what is worse than even saying I did not think it could happen is saying
1:46.8	Oh, I didn't think that could happen again
1:51.5	And yet that is something that people have found themselves saying throughout this pandemic
1:56.1	It is something that past leaders have also said in other times of uncertainty and difficulty
2:02.4	As if there was no such thing as variants or double dip recessions as if it's not possible for bad things to get worse
2:10.1	As if something you fixed once can't come undone or re-occur
2:13.9	As if 100-year storms only happen once every 100 years
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