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#381 - General Stanley McChrystal - Military Strategies For Dealing With Risk

Modern Wisdom

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The Challenges of Poor Communication

If you have insufficient diversity, and if the structure's wrong as well, creativity gets limited. I think it's one of the things i learned in special operations with very mature people, is don't give them tasks. If you give them a task that's fairly narrow, you say, oka wants you to go here and do x, they will do that. Step back and give them broad missions and say, this is the problem we want to get to now the task and up being very obvious. It's creating an organization toh, that welcomes that.

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