General Stanley McChrystal on Evaluating Risk, Leadership and More
Elevate with Robert Glazer
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The Dangers of Expecting Radical People to Act Radical
Most dangerous was the people not seeing at the stuff that the fringe was, was fringy. That seems to be the most dangerous thing I've seen when I, we, I expect radical people to act radical. If you go back to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany as they got into power and suddenly they started to put limits on the Jews. A lot of the German population was frightened by it. And so they weren't willing to speak up either because they were scared of being bended with that or they just weren't sure. So they step back and it lets the people who are most radical control the discussions and sometimes actual power.
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