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Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes - Page 3
American
-
Soldier
Born:
August 14
, 1954
When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some ISAF coalition members, and much of the American public had lost confidence in both the trajectory of the war and our ability to correct it.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Some
,
Correct
,
Afghans
I think my biggest achievement was being part of a team of outstanding, entrepreneurial military leaders and civilians who helped change the way in which America fights by transforming a global special operations task force - Task Force 714 - that I commanded.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Achievement
,
I Think
,
Part
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
American
,
Career
,
Principle
How Americans restore trust may be an existential question for their country, then, but it's ultimately a practical one: What U.S. society needs to answer it in the coming years aren't lamentations but practical measures, especially among the emerging generations that will define America's future.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Trust
,
Country
,
Generations
A year of service has the power to bring young people together from different races, ethnicities, incomes, faiths, and political backgrounds to work on pressing problems facing U.S. society today.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Young
,
Year
,
Incomes
Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Trust
,
Reminders
,
Cities
Public television works hard to engage young learners and build the skills needed for a jump-start on life. We need our youngest to be curious, resilient and empathetic, and prepared for the jobs of the future.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Curious
,
Young
,
Works
Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Career
,
Like
,
Spent
In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together.
Stanley A. McChrystal
More
,
Sights
,
I See
We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Strong
,
Different People
In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people - figure out why they don't want to change. It could be habits. It could be people's personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they're in or the process they've mastered.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Role
,
Habits
,
Reputations
The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Making
,
Average People
,
Very
The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Changes
,
Leaders
,
Got
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
,
Big
,
Solving
We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology. We are a country defined by ideals now in need of rescue.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Country
,
Flight
,
Ideals
America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Big
,
Needs
,
Plays
We should get to the business of providing at least one million opportunities each year for young Americans to spend a service year with peers who are different from them - by race, ethnicity, income, politics and religious belief.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Politics
,
Income
,
Religious
The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Telling
,
Sticker
,
Them
How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.
Stanley A. McChrystal
How
,
Senior
,
Lot
If we want to be members of the world community, we need to think that way.
Stanley A. McChrystal
World
,
Think
,
Need
If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Mistake
,
Soldier
,
Authorized
My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Soldier
,
Always
,
Wanted
One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Doing
,
Big
,
Lose
We want to make the insurgents come to us. Make them be the aggressors. What I want to do is get on the inside looking out - instead of being on the outside looking in.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Want
,
Come
,
Them
Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.
Stanley A. McChrystal
World
,
Been
,
Organizational
Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Need
,
Given
,
Excelled
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