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What You Can't Say About Your Boss
By all accounts - including the now infamous profile in Rolling Stone - Stanley McChrystal is a brilliant, resourceful, brave and aggressive general. So how did he manage to get himself fired?
Obama's Lost Opportunity to Encourage Degrees of Transparency
Dr. Eisold - thank you so much for this thoughtful and timely piece. You captured the situation beautifully. As a former hothead CPA who was going to write a book in the 1980s about how to build your wealth through severance packages, I empathize with Stanley McChrystal. I think the real lost opportunity here is for Obama. If he could get rid of the reactive, bullying goons in his Administration, trust his own collaborative, civil and thoughtful approach, he could have created opportunities for meaningful dialogue with key leaders like McChrystal. With this approach, McChrystal could have gotten his need to be heard met in an appropriate manner that would have moved the situation towards a more effective resolution. There are degrees of transparency and this is a beautiful example of the highest degree; raw, unfettered emotional outbursts. That's one approach.
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