The key thing, the lever you can pull is clearly your vulnerability. How resilient can you make yourself as an individual and your organization? And that gets back to a number of just sort of basic qualities of the organization. But even though you're vulnerable, that's interesting, ye, because there's just no threats now. We don't live in that world, and you can't control them to a great degree but your vulnerabilities you have some agency over.
General Stanley McChrystal is a retired four-star general, the former commander of US and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, and former commander of Joint Special Operations Command, America’s premier military counter-terrorism force.
General McChrystal is also the founder of the McChrystal Group, a senior fellow at Yale University, and the author of several New York Times bestselling books including Leaders: Myth & Reality and his most recent book Risk: A User’s Guide.
General McChrystal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss how to assess risk, core qualities of leadership he looks for, propaganda, the conflict in Ukraine and more.
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