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Stanley A. McChrystal

American Soldier

Born: Aug 14, 1954

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Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording. Stanley A. McChrystal

Good Leadership You Trust Commitment Management Win Inspire Organization Job Build Job Description Evoking Contains Participation Contract Than Durable Any Just Wording Certain Means Requires Description Elements Deeper Larger

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates. Stanley A. McChrystal

You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars. But if you're a leader, the people you've counted on will help you up. And if you're a leader, the people who count on you need you on your feet. Stanley A. McChrystal

You People Will Hurts Leader Down Scars Count Counted Knocked Feet Leaves Up Get Your Help Who Need

By nature, I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent... But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out of context or when I gave trust to those few who were unworthy of it. Stanley A. McChrystal

Public broadcasting makes our nation smarter, stronger and, yes, safer. Stanley A. McChrystal

Stronger Nation Our Broadcasting Smarter Safer Makes Yes Public

Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision - a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander. Stanley A. McChrystal

Success Strength Vision Collective Inevitable Group Enjoy Speed Cinematic Visionary Members Individual Exciting Masterful Commander Squad American Precision Goliath Boasting Success Is Planning Whose Olympian Strengths Consequence

There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete. Stanley A. McChrystal

Art You Communicate Valuable Leader Picture Incomplete Primarily Know Provide Questions Normally Subordinate Often Wants Asking Asking Questions Briefing

If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war. Stanley A. McChrystal

War Mistake Lose Every Soldier Make Authorized Then

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead. Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength You Lead Leading Just Want

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity. Stanley A. McChrystal

Integrity Honor Throughout Principles Personal Professional Lived Career

Empowering, cultivating, and ultimately serving those who follow you will unlock massive potential within your organization, allowing you to solve for problems in real time. Stanley A. McChrystal

Soldiers fighting a daily battle under frightening conditions can feel their leaders are far removed from their reality. There's no magic cure for this challenge, and soothing words that aren't backed up by action encourage cynicism. Stanley A. McChrystal

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities. Stanley A. McChrystal

Time Daily Group Spend Ensure Must Adopt Civilian Winning Weekly Consulting Principle Learned Priorities Yearly American Closely Organizations Companies Company Helps Fundamental Fundamental Principle Actually Units Career

America needs a restart. It has long devoted its energies to solving its many big problems - unequal opportunity, crumbling infrastructure, lagging education, inadequate training in a changing economy, and threats to peace around the world. Stanley A. McChrystal

Education Needs Peace Training World Opportunity Problems Long Big Changing Solving Threats Crumbling Economy Devoted Around Unequal America Big Problems Energies Infrastructure Inadequate Many

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia. Stanley A. McChrystal

History You Sit Down Know Forces Understand Malaysia Ireland Officers Northern Senior Afghanistan Northern Ireland Just The History Of Successful Sweep British

Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics. Stanley A. McChrystal

Soldiers Follow Safe Caution Cautious Want Cynicism Cynics

As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting. Stanley A. McChrystal

Tough Our Broadcasting About Tough Decisions Federal Federal Funding Leaders Budget Priorities Continue Decisions Public Urge Confront Them Washington Funding

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure. Stanley A. McChrystal

Failure Military Lesson Incremental Dangers Recognized Students Leaders Insurgency Condemned Were Historical Trailing Escalation Many Whom

I said if you want me to go back to Afghanistan and work, I'm happy to do that. If you think accepting my resignation is best for the cause and for the nation, then I have no complaint with that. Stanley A. McChrystal

Work Best Me You Happy Cause Nation Think Complaint Back Accepting Said Go Afghanistan Want Then Resignation

I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing. Stanley A. McChrystal

You Writing Starts Way Find Something Like Looks Were Get Want Then Sculpt Sculptor Fun Actually Start

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever. Stanley A. McChrystal

You Army Gone Only Identity Forever Which Serve

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