Rapid Response: A crisis leadership session with General Stanley McChrystal

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Everyone's looking for a box of crisis tricks. But the hard truth is that it simply doesn’t exist, says retired General Stanley McChrystal. Instead of looking for a new style, McChrystal says, lead with the same things that motivate people on a normal basis: Be honest about the path ahead, communicate clearly and build your team up. With calm reassurance, he encourages founders to keep their eyes on the future. Prepare for the post-pandemic world now, so you and your team can spring to action when the time comes. Retired General McChrystal is now the founder of the McChrystal Group. Interviewed by editor Bob Safian.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you may have heard read talking about the future of AI and chat GPT on
0:04.8	Master's of Scale recently.
0:06.6	If you're interested in learning more, I want to recommend Wired's new podcast Have
0:10.6	a Nice Future.
0:12.0	Each episode explores the future of AI through illuminated conversations, featuring top technologists,
0:17.7	thinkers, and creators who share stories of how politics, culture, commerce, and more
0:22.3	are all touched by technology.
0:24.8	New episodes of Have a Nice Future are released every Wednesday.
0:28.2	You can listen and follow now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.7	You know, you've got to very carefully create a nuclear reaction to create nuclear power.
0:36.9	Get it wrong, you get a meltdown or explosion or something terrible, get it right and you
0:40.4	produce this amazing amount of power.
0:43.0	But it's a managed effort.
0:44.7	It's not something that just happens.
0:47.4	Leaders have to understand that what they're trying to do in an organization is to create
0:52.4	this equivalent, the level of integration and collaboration that a war requires.
0:58.4	The real courage and a leader is not in telling people what to do.
1:04.1	The reality is that the economy is in this hiccup right now and as soon as it starts
1:09.4	to sort itself out, certain organizations are going to spring ahead because they've
1:13.6	been figuring it out, they've been going to school on this.
1:21.6	At Stanley McChrystal, the retired US general who led counterterrorism efforts in Iraq and
1:26.4	Afghanistan for more than seven years.
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