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Simon Sinek - Start With Why

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The Importance of Autonomy in Leadership

When there's a lack of psychological safety inside the organization, what happens is cynicism paranoia, mistrust and self-interest prevail. The natural human response to those conditions is trust and cooperation. SEALs plan their own missions. They're told the objective and that's all they're told. That's unbelievable autonomy. And we really have this misperception in the civilian world that these guys are robots. It's not what happens. Some of the smartest guys I ever met were in the SEALs.

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