There will be many books, and we won't settle on a single interpretation of what's happening. I think the accurate books are going to say that we made some fundamental mistakes. We knew a pandemic was coming, because they do come with a regular heartbeat. And instead, what we did was we allowed our lack of leadership,. We allowed a truncated or divided response. You can't pen this on any one leader, o scientist, or anyone else. All of us just didn't show"
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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