Best quotes by Stanley A. McChrystal on Trust
Checkout quotes by Stanley A. McChrystal on Trust
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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
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‟ I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.
- Stanley A. McChrystal
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‟ Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991.
- Stanley A. McChrystal
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‟ The challenge that we faced with the arrival of the Obama administration is, they didn't really have time to build trust before they had to make big, difficult decisions.
- Stanley A. McChrystal
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‟ I think with the beginning of any political administration, you have to build trust, and it takes time.
- Stanley A. McChrystal
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‟ If we are visiting Afghans, typically the Afghan governor, district or provincial governor, we see he doesn't wear body armor, and yet we're walking through his streets. I'm his guest. I think that that's important that I send a message that I trust him and I don't think I am more valuable than I think he is.
- Stanley A. McChrystal
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‟ Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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
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‟ Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
- Stanley A. McChrystal