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.
ABOUT GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL
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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