When Do You Stop Collecting Information?

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I think about this in the sense of, when do you stop gathering information and make a decision? I've never captured em as clearly as you just did there. But my tendency is to make decisions too quickly. And so what did learn about myself as i had to bring people around me who were not that way? It gives us a balance. Because i will sometimes be irresponsibly rapid, superficial. If i've people who want to look under every stone and sort out everything, we can meet somewhere in the middle. They pull me to a reasonable area, and i can pull them to where we need to be.

Retired United States Army General Stanley McChrystal calls on more than three decades of military experience to discuss the fundamental tenets of leadership, and practical advice for taking calculated risks and making important decisions. This wide-ranging conversation includes insights on mitigating risk, making decisions under uncertainty, why civilian leadership is tougher than military leadership, developing mental toughness, teaching discipline, and so much more. A veteran of four U.S. wars in the Middle East, McChrystal was a four-star general best known for his command of Joint Special Operations Command from 2003-08, when he oversaw special operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His troops were responsible for both the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the 2006 death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. After retiring from the military in 2010 he joined Yale University as a Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow, and in 2011 he founded a consultancy firm, McChrystal Group, which helps organizations tap into human potential in service of stronger business outcomes. --

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