Stanley McChrystal
18 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2022 by Stanley McChrystal · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Mar 8, 2022 positive
McChrystal: The Military Outperforms Civilian Firms by Heavily Investing in Leadership
“They, they've decided that that's an expenditure that is not worth the cost, and so the vast majority of them don't, ah, invest there, whereas the military, for all its weaknesses, spends an awful lot of time developing leaders, and as I described, the militar…”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
McChrystal: Putting leaders on pedestals provides an excuse to underperform
“And so I think one of the first things I've learned from leaders is don't expect perfection, expect humanity. Because if you expect perfection and you put your leaders on a pedestal, but you know you're not perfect, then that gives you an excuse for saying, we…”
Mar 8, 2022 negative
McChrystal: Tech Improves Risk Assessment, but Inertia Keeps Society Vulnerable
“And so I would argue on the one hand, there is the ability to assess the risk with greater accuracy and more timeliness, but we have problems in our society and our organizations now where it's very hard to overcome inertia, either The inaction or the momentum…”
Mar 8, 2022
McChrystal: Executives Must Defer to Frontline Operators Despite Having Remote Visibility
“Don't fall into the self-deception that you have a better understanding of what's happening than they do. Use that, that position and that visibility to gain some perspective, but then listen, talk, do everything else you can and support the person on the grou…”
Mar 8, 2022 positive
McChrystal: 'Commander's Intent' Enables Decentralized Teams to Adapt When Plans Fail
“And what the commander's intent was designed to do was tell everyone in the organization, this is what I actually mean. And if everything goes to hell, as long as we get this done, accomplish this outcome, that's success. And so while I've got a plan that says…”
Mar 8, 2022 positive
McChrystal: Determine decision deadlines by back-planning from required execution time
“Your one technique that's worked very well for me is you start with what action would need to be executed to be effective. And then you back plan and figure out how long it would take to implement that action. And so that's your decision point. You must make t…”
Mar 8, 2022
McChrystal: Swatting Away Every Threat in Complex Environments Is a Fool's Errand
“We're really not very good at seeing where all the threats are coming from, particularly in a complex environment. And also we're not very good at predicting when they will come. So I think it's a fool's errand to try to think you're going to swat away every t…”
Mar 8, 2022 negative
McChrystal: Tech Amplifies Disinformation, Driving Rational People to Irrational Acts
“We're in an era now where disinformation, it's not more powerful than it was in the past, but it's more easy to distribute. And so information technology makes it amplifies its effect. And that is dangerous because rational people will do irrational things.”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
McChrystal: AI and Big Data Will Not Solve Intelligence Detection Overload
“Now, some people will say, well, big data will solve this. We use artificial intelligence and we'll crunch and we'll see patterns and trends. And to a degree that will be of help. But I don't think it will be the panacea. I think there will still be too much n…”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
Mar 8, 2022
Stanley McChrystal: Risk Equals Threats Multiplied by Internal Vulnerabilities
“If you think of it as threats times vulnerabilities equals risk, then you suddenly realize that threats are things that are out there that are inevitably coming our way in most cases, and then our vulnerability to them. And so if we can drive threats down low …”
Mar 8, 2022
McChrystal: Impulsive leaders must surround themselves with deliberate advisors for balance
“My tendency is to make decisions too quickly. I have a tendency to get too little information and shoot from the hip and make a decision and let's go. And so what I did learn about myself is I had to bring people around me who were not that way. And every once…”
Mar 8, 2022 positive
McChrystal: Decisive CEOs Have Much Greater Maneuver Space Than Peacetime Military Leaders
“Civilian leaders can do that's much better is they can make big decisions. A military leader in combat can make a big decision, but in peacetime, laws, regulations, tables of organization equipments really narrow them down to a pretty small area of maneuver sp…”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
McChrystal: With Al Qaeda's Background, I Might Have Reached Identical Conclusions
“Rather than hate the Al Qaeda operatives because they were bloodthirsty and they would do horrible things, you had to step back and say, if I'd had their life journey and their perspective, I might very well Have the exact same conclusions and activities as th…”
Mar 8, 2022
McChrystal: Voice communication captures vital emotional signals missed by text
“There was incredible value in voice communication. You could talk to a subordinate and you could tell by the tone of their voice, how their morale was, Whether they were upset, whether they were shaky, and you could hopefully be a reassuring voice to them that…”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
McChrystal: Bad outcomes do not mean decisions were bad
“And just because you got it wrong or you get a bad outcome, doesn't mean the decision was bad. You can make the best possible decision and bad luck or randomness. Similarly, you can make a stupid decision, get a good outcome and convince yourself you're a geni…”
Mar 8, 2022 positive
McChrystal: Personal Mythology and Extreme Habits Help Leaders Inspire Teams
“On the other side of the coin, you know, there's a value in sort of mythology sometimes because people started thinking, you know, McChrystal, some kind of Zen warrior who, you know, the stoic who eats one meal a day and he's, Etc. He's never slept, slept in h…”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
McChrystal: An Individual's Relationship With Risk Is Innate and Rarely Changes
“I think everyone has a relationship with risk, and it doesn't really change. You may get a little better with it, a little more experienced, But you have a certain Ability to deal with that uncertainty. And I think that comes from birth.”