#535: General Stanley McChrystal — Mastering Risk: A User's Guide

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General Stanley
McChrystal (@stanmcchrystal) was called “one of
America’s greatest warriors” by Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates. Having held leadership and staff positions in the Army
Special Forces, Army Rangers, 82nd Airborne Division, the XVIII
Army Airborne Corp, and the Joint Staff, McChrystal became
commander of JSOC in 2003, responsible for leading the nation’s
deployed military counterterrorism efforts around the globe. His
leadership is credited with the 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein
and the 2006 locating and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In June 2009, McChrystal received his
fourth star and assumed command of all international forces in
Afghanistan.


General McChrystal founded the McChrystal Group in
January 2011, an advisory services firm that helps businesses
challenge the hierarchical “command and control” approach to
organizational management.


He is a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for
Global Affairs, where he teaches a course on leadership, and he
is the author of the bestselling leadership books My Share
of the Task: A Memoir; Team of Teams: New Rules of
Engagement for a Complex World; and Leaders: Myth and
Reality. His new book is Risk: A User’s
Guide. He is also the co-host (with former Navy SEAL
Chris Fussell) of the No Turning Back podcast, where
they explore the future of leadership and teams with the world’s
most consequential leaders.


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