Leaders: Myth and Reality

by General Stanley McChrystal

Let me give you my vision: a man’s right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master—these

leadership to improve the overall progress of humanity. Too often, results-based leadership has been focused on the bottom line, trying to manage a perceived trade-off between achieving the mission and taking care of people. Through this new conceptual lens, we dispense with such either-or thinking. Rather, the two become positively correlated, and we can more easily see how societal prosperity is linked to workforce fulfillment, and how unit effectiveness is linked to morale.