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One of the advantages of travelling to the US is the buying of books that are not available yet, or much more expensive than in Europe.<\/p>\n
So I just bought an interesting book \u201cMy Share of the Task\u201d by general Stanley McChrystal, who wrote down his memoirs of his dynamic career, especially\u00a0 <\/span>as the leader of Taskforce 714. The taskforce that successfully destroyed the organization \u00a0<\/span>Al Qaida in Iraq and its terrorist leader Al Zarqawi.<\/p>\n But McChrystal was a special leader\u00a0 <\/span>who practiced what he preached and came up with a lot of out-of-box concepts for counteracting terrorism, concepts that worked! A general he was not only innovative, raised the bar high for his team, and also for himself, but did not have a lot of respect for politicians and people that lack integrity. And he was not afraid to show and tell. Of course that caused his downfall when a journalist from the Rolling Stone published an interview, after travelling with\u00a0 <\/span>McChrystal and his team, that mainly highlighted this attitude. Considered being politically incorrect, and showing a sense of humour and self-criticism that most politicians lack,he was fired.<\/p>\n Well, a tremendous loss for the global war against terrorism, but hopefully a step forward for Stanley Mc Chrystal.<\/p>\n In his book his innovative concepts becomes clear and the last chapter he dedicates to leadership. Not leadership from the armchair, the theoretical, the book, or the two-day course, but leadership from the trenches and from the heart as well as the head.<\/p>\n If you doubt about buying this book , take a look at the TED-talk McChrystal presented, called Listen, Learn ,…… then Lead, and you know what you can expect.<\/p>\n