Stanley McChrystal
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Stanley McChrystal is a retired general known for his leadership in complex military operations. This interview reveals his principled approach to leadership, focusing on trust and the moral implications of decisions in challenging environments.
“Ended up playing till five in the morning. It was like 120 people in it. And I came home. I remember just having this, you know, they paid me out in tens and 20s, I think £750 or something like that, which was more money. So I'd never seen that amount of cash before. Just so much money.”
“Explanation through what we know conventionally that is still more probable than that it is something completely some completely novel thing that is untapped.”
“Guess it's really laser in and pay deep attention to what is going on because technically at any given moment, even if you're not in hand, there's really valuable information being exchanged about the way people, you know, the types of cards people play, the way that their bodies move when they're uncomfortable versus comfortable.”
“So I actually wanted one of my next videos I want to make on this, which is about basically these signaling prestige. Incentives that get society stuck in these kind of these traps, essentially. So we're stuck in one of those with the current status quo of the way science is done. And this is not at all to knock any scientists.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 302 - Stanley McChrystal
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