I also like to see people who are on a team and got selected to be a leader on the team

like the captain or a leader on debate or whatever because it shows that they were committed

to something and people were respecting them during that.

Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today we're talking with General

Stanley McChrystal, his new book, Team of Teams, an excellent read. And I really, really enjoyed

this conversation. We're going to talk about leadership from a special forces perspective.

Why flexibility and adaptability are the cure for an unpredictable landscape and some techniques

for building that flexibility in ourselves and why relationships are the key to success of

any organization, military or otherwise, and how we can develop those relationships and networks

to improve our own organizations. Really glad to have you with us here today at AOC.

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of the show. All right, let's talk to General Stanley McChrystal.

I toured and spoke to the second battalion, Ranger Battalion. We did a little training

up before it was, I got the shirt to prove it. I said, oh, I'm interviewing General Stanley McChrystal

and one of the guys there, Brian Wright, shout out to him. He's the ABC at Second Battalion. He said,

you're one of his heroes and he said, one day he saw you, I don't even know, I guess it was in

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