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w*a
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【Part One】
今年一月初,美军退役的四星上将Stanley McChrystal来到纽约,为他新近出版的回忆
录My Share of the Task进行为期一周的宣传。我收到了一个去听他讲座的邀请。我原
本对军事既不熟悉也不感兴趣,犹豫了一个星期之后还是觉得不想去。但就在那天上午
距讲座开始只有几个小时的时候,我偶然得知了关于将军的一条个人信息,那条信息让
我顿时对他产生了一丝亲切感,然后就在这个听上去很感性的原因的驱使下,我决定去
听这场并不感性的讲座。
美军退役四星上将Stanely McChrystal, 1954年生于一个军人世家,他的祖父和父亲都
是军人,父亲是美军陆军少将(Major General), 到了Stanley这一代,家中兄弟四
人均为美军效力。1976年毕业于美国西点军校(United States Military Academy at
West Point, New York)之后,McChrystal便开始了他长达34年的军事生涯。在军事生
涯的鼎盛时期,他曾于2003年至2008年期间担任联合特种作战司令部(Joint Special
Operations Command)的司令,并率领这只特种兵部队收集有关恐怖分子的军事情报,
于2006年4月探测到基地组织Al-Qaeda 在伊拉克当时的首领Abu Musab al-Zarqawi的行
踪并于当年6月将其消灭。2008年8月至2009年6月,他被小布什任命担任三星上将职位
Director of Joint Staff (美军海陆空联合参谋部)。2009年6月至2010年6月,他经
Obama任命担任国际安全援助部队司令及美军在阿富汗司令(Commander,
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces
Afghanistan (USFOR-A)),同时晋升四星上将。
2010年6月美国Rolling Stone杂志刊登了由当时还是自由撰稿人的Michael Hastings写
的一篇很有争议的文章,文章中在多处援引Stanley McChrystal的部下对总统Obama,
副总统Biden,以及白宫和军方其他重要人物的负面评价,成为导致McChrystal军事政
治生涯终结的导火索。在文章正式在Rolling Stone网上发表之后的一天暨纸面杂志发
表之前的两天,2010年6月23日, McChrystal被传唤到白宫,在与Obama历时不到20分
钟的私人会谈之中,McChrystal提交了辞呈。数日之后,2010年7月23日,McChrystal
正式退役,保留四星上将军衔。
退役之后,Stanley McChrystal加入了Yale University的Jackson Institute for
Global Affairs, 担任senior fellow. 他在Yale开办的一门关于leadership的seminar
很受欢迎,从2011年至今,已经开办了3期。同时,他还在Alexandria, Virginia创办
了一家以他名字命名的咨询公司,McChrystal Group, 着重于对机构和企业的
operational efficiency improvement and leadership training.
做事风格方面,Stanley McChrystal在美国军方和政界一直以来以敢言敢为而著称。“
… Rumsfeld and Bush, who loved his willingness to get things done.“
McChrystal was reportedly known for saying and thinking what other military
leaders were afraid to; this was one of the reasons cited for his
appointment to lead all forces in Afghanistan.” 他在“very conservative,
has strong muscle memory”的军中曾推行多项改革,其中一项就是change the
culture of communication,促进information sharing,试图改变一直以来only tell
the people who need to know 的传统理念。当然,这样的性格也给他带来了很多争
议和麻烦,最终导致了他的军事政治生涯的终结。敢言这一点,在他的讲座的过程中,
也得到了充分体现。
他身材颀长瘦削,人看上去很精神干练,讲话时思路清晰有条理,是一个很有charisma
的人。据报道,他常年保持着每天跑7至8英里,只吃一餐,每晚只睡4个小时的生活习
惯。我在讲座的第二部分问答环节中向他求证这条消息的真实性,他笑着说那是他从西
点时期就养成的一个不太smart的习惯,他说每天确实是只吃一餐,但强调那是one big
dinner。
讲座分为两部分。开始的30分钟里,Stanley McChrystal讲述了他在2006年率领联合特
种作战部队收集有关恐怖分子的军事情报,探测到基地组织Al-Qaeda 在伊拉克当时的
首领Abu Musab al-Zarqawi的行踪并于当年6月将其消灭的过程。后30分钟是问答环节
。下面就是部分问答的简短摘要。
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w*a
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【Part Two】
讲座分为两部分。开始的30分钟里,Stanley McChrystal讲述了他在2006年率领联合特
种作战部队收集有关恐怖分子的军事情报,探测到基地组织Al-Qaeda 在伊拉克当时的
首领Abu Musab al-Zarqawi的行踪并于当年6月将其消灭的过程。后30分钟是问答环节
。下面就是部分问答的简短摘要。
Q1: What is the purpose of writing this book?
McChrystal:
I won’t write a book about special operation only after I came to
Afghanistan. I wanted to do several things. The first is that most of
American military are anonymous to you now. Most of the time, you don’t
know somebody who have served very well. They are not going to talk that
much about it. So they are anonymous. What I am trying to do is to put a
face on them, especially on the special operation soldiers, because when you
watch movies, they are the big-beard guys, they are kind of charismatic but
shady. But they are not, they are 35-year old fathers and mothers. They got
houses, they got mortgages, they got kids in school, they got problems.
When you are 18 years old, you think you are bullet-proof. You go to
battlefield and say here I am and I am good to go. But when you are 35, you
know you are not. You had 2 knee operations, a shoulder operation, etc….At
one point, they are wounded, but they are still in the fight. I want to give
a face to them. So that is the number one thing I was trying to do.
What was not I was trying to do is a political tell-all. I won’t have a
list of who I like, who I don’t like, who have irritated me, that sort of
thing. Because that’s not me, and I think a book like that will not be
picked up 10 years from now. Who cares about that 10 years from now? What
they care 10 years from now is what we have changed.
Q2: How do you look at leadership?
McChrystal:
Leadership is about getting the organization to succeed; it is not about
getting you to succeed. It is not like the corner office, the paycheck, the
parking space, or anything like that. It is not even like feeling that you
succeeded. It is about the organization to succeed.
One of the best things that I have ever heard is that if you are really
effective as a leader and the organization does something well, then
everybody will feel like that they did it for themselves, and they didn’t
need to be directed.
So one of the first things that I learned is that the most capacity in an
organization is in the people, not in the leader. The leader creates the
environment, the leader empowers, gives the opportunity and demands, raises
expectations. So what I learned is that leading is about to get the
organization to function. That usually means bringing the most competent
people. And that sounds like a bumper sticker, but it really matters a lot
to our structures, to the way we compensate people, to the way we promote
people, and to the way that we hire people. It takes a culture change.
Q3: What is the idea of shared consciousness, which was advocated in your
consulting service provided to big organizations?
McChrystal:
When you are in a traditional hierarchical organization, information goes up
, and the people in the top make the decision and direct the people. By the
time the information comes up, it is not relevant any more; by the time the
directives come down, they don’t make sense. Even if you have smart people
here (top) and smart people there (bottom), you don’t have good outcome.
So what we are trying to do is everybody knows everything at anytime
including what I think. The idea is to empower everybody. What happened was
when everybody, they knew not just what that directives about, they knew
what I was thinking, and what other key leaders were thinking, and they didn
’t have to ask for direction. When something comes up at their level, they
can make the decision, because they know what we are trying to do. Do a
decentralized decision making. So shared consciousness is about that.
The second part of it is shared purpose. And shared purpose is that you all
try to get to the same thing, which is harder than you think. So what we are
doing about companies now when we were at HP and Seagate, we helped them do
processes, do leadership training, to help them build shared consciousness
and purposeness.
Q4: When at your career did you want to attain the level of leadership as a
General?
McChrystal:
The only time that I really started thinking I would like to be a general is
about the time that I am senior enough to say: you know what, that’s
messed up. If I was senior enough, I want to fix that. You started to have
an old itch that you want to scratch. And you first would like to do to go
to the general you know and ask them to fix that. If they are not going to
do, I would say that if I am there I would like to fix that.
And that’s what senior leaders should do. When you are senior, fix senior
problems. A lot of senior leaders, you know what they want to do, is to fix
the things that they’ve known how to do back in the time when they were
young. Senior people shouldn’t talk about junior problems. Senior people
got to talk about big problems, and force junior people to fix junior
problems.
后来,我也问了他一个问题: In retrospect, was there anything that you think
you should have done, but you didn’t? 他的回答是:“I used to tell a
commander that all the best decisions I made, I made six months too late.
And what that means is that I would see something, I think about it, and
then I staffed it, studied it or whatever, and then I made this great
decision. And in almost any cases I looked at and the decision turned out to
be good. I go back and I said that I had everything that I needed six
months ago to make that decision except the courage. ”
听到这里,我问:“But is it possible that in some cases you wait for a
little longer and gather more information, and at the end you realized that
the previous idea is premature and decided not to go for it? ”他说:“Yeah,
typically in an organizations we do too much of that. We get information.
My father, who used to be a combat commander, told me that, you are going to
be able to tell effective combat commanders because the ineffective ones
are always trying to get more information. Because they are trying to
mitigate risk. What they are trying to do is that I want more intelligence
because if you have all the intelligence, then there is no risk. But usually
when you get that, the opportunities have come and gone. So what we have to
do is to build a culture that says you will be never gonna get enough, you
will always get to be uncertain with your own decision. But guess what? You
are going to make some mistakes that will be made up by making early
decisions which will pay off more. And you can’t punish mistakes either
yourself or in the organization, because if they are not making decisions,
they are staffing there one more time, typically the organization will
become so slow you will become ineffective.
这就是四星上将Stanley McChrystal, 一个曾经戎马生涯出生入死的硬汉。在尴尬谢幕
之后,他旋即潇洒转身,开启的又是一片新天地。
一个小时的讲座很快就结束了,McChrystal在四个高级随从的护送下从会场的侧门迅速
离开。而我,则坐在观众席里目送着将军渐行渐远的背影,在心里说出了那个最初促使
我来听这场讲座的很感性的理由:“我和你同月同日生,我们都是狮子座!”
我真俗。
weiweiya, 2013年2月24日中午12点47分,于纽约。
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w*a
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His memoir My Share of the Task (source: internet)
Stanley McChrystal and Obama (source: internet)
Taken by me during the seminar on 1/11/2013
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w*a
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饿了,先吃饭,再写短后记

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: His memoir My Share of the Task (source: internet)
: Stanley McChrystal and Obama (source: internet)
: Taken by me during the seminar on 1/11/2013

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wh
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重点在最后……这些问答是你录音听写下来的?

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 饿了,先吃饭,再写短后记
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w*a
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Nope. 刚刚给你发了私信。。。

【在 wh 的大作中提到】
: 重点在最后……这些问答是你录音听写下来的?
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j*n
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美国媒体比较无耻堕落也好多年了
但话语权和言论自由这么个金钟罩在人家手里

was
to

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: Nope. 刚刚给你发了私信。。。
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w*a
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那篇文章用词卑劣,作者几乎是用一种小混混样的玩世不恭的口气写了那一篇又臭又长
的文章。要不是要写我自己这篇作文,我都没有耐心看下去。
不过,Obama肯定也是对McChrystal积怨己久,借着这个机会就让他下台了。

【在 j******n 的大作中提到】
: 美国媒体比较无耻堕落也好多年了
: 但话语权和言论自由这么个金钟罩在人家手里
:
: was
: to

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w*a
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后记已完成,见3楼

was
to

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 那篇文章用词卑劣,作者几乎是用一种小混混样的玩世不恭的口气写了那一篇又臭又长
: 的文章。要不是要写我自己这篇作文,我都没有耐心看下去。
: 不过,Obama肯定也是对McChrystal积怨己久,借着这个机会就让他下台了。

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O*o
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没打过仗?估计对他饭的会很少的
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w*a
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小时候跟我哥打仗算吗?

【在 O*******o 的大作中提到】
: 没打过仗?估计对他饭的会很少的
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O*o
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赢了才算。
-----------圆宵节快乐

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 小时候跟我哥打仗算吗?
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z*i
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老赵元宵节好。韭菜馅儿元宵一定的啊!

【在 O*******o 的大作中提到】
: 赢了才算。
: -----------圆宵节快乐

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w*a
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哭了的时候一般都能赢,呵呵
谢谢提醒,赵兄元宵节快乐

【在 O*******o 的大作中提到】
: 赢了才算。
: -----------圆宵节快乐

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O*o
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和和, 老大好。
今年没买到韭菜馅儿元宵啊!我计划把
韭菜馅儿的饺子和豆沙馅的元宵一起煮一起吃啊。 您看这么样?在美国只好将就了。
对了, 你是不是出两灯谜让大家猜猜?

【在 z*i 的大作中提到】
: 老赵元宵节好。韭菜馅儿元宵一定的啊!
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b*s
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当将军的时候嘴太大……

没打过仗?估计对他饭的会很少的

【在 O*******o 的大作中提到】
: 没打过仗?估计对他饭的会很少的
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z*i
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这个让windking来。 我没那材料。

【在 O*******o 的大作中提到】
: 和和, 老大好。
: 今年没买到韭菜馅儿元宵啊!我计划把
: 韭菜馅儿的饺子和豆沙馅的元宵一起煮一起吃啊。 您看这么样?在美国只好将就了。
: 对了, 你是不是出两灯谜让大家猜猜?

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w*a
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我觉得主要是以前小布什挺很赏识他,所以嘴大就嘴大吧,他起码还是个能挺实干的人。
奥巴马没什么真本事,就是说话好听,军事经济方面O8实在是没什么经验,所以这么多
年也没鼓捣出个道道来。成天就知道说Yes you can!是啊,We can啊,BUT CAN YOU?

【在 b*s 的大作中提到】
: 当将军的时候嘴太大……
:
: 没打过仗?估计对他饭的会很少的

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b*s
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关键还是没有关键的大仗打。巴顿也是有名的大嘴,但是因为需要他,所以不能把他怎
样。当然,他战后也是死的比较快,比较蹊跷……

我觉得主要是以前小布什挺很赏识他,所以嘴大就嘴大吧,他起码还是个能挺实干的人。
奥巴马没什么真本事,就是说话好听,军事经济方面O8实在是没什么经验,所以这么多
年也没鼓捣出个道道来。成天就知道说Yes you can!是啊,We can啊,BUT CAN YOU?

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 我觉得主要是以前小布什挺很赏识他,所以嘴大就嘴大吧,他起码还是个能挺实干的人。
: 奥巴马没什么真本事,就是说话好听,军事经济方面O8实在是没什么经验,所以这么多
: 年也没鼓捣出个道道来。成天就知道说Yes you can!是啊,We can啊,BUT CAN YOU?

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w*a
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是啊,人就要保持有被利用的价值啊,这个道理放之四海

人。

【在 b*s 的大作中提到】
: 关键还是没有关键的大仗打。巴顿也是有名的大嘴,但是因为需要他,所以不能把他怎
: 样。当然,他战后也是死的比较快,比较蹊跷……
:
: 我觉得主要是以前小布什挺很赏识他,所以嘴大就嘴大吧,他起码还是个能挺实干的人。
: 奥巴马没什么真本事,就是说话好听,军事经济方面O8实在是没什么经验,所以这么多
: 年也没鼓捣出个道道来。成天就知道说Yes you can!是啊,We can啊,BUT CAN YOU?

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w*a
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说说巴顿是咋死的?

人。

【在 b*s 的大作中提到】
: 关键还是没有关键的大仗打。巴顿也是有名的大嘴,但是因为需要他,所以不能把他怎
: 样。当然,他战后也是死的比较快,比较蹊跷……
:
: 我觉得主要是以前小布什挺很赏识他,所以嘴大就嘴大吧,他起码还是个能挺实干的人。
: 奥巴马没什么真本事,就是说话好听,军事经济方面O8实在是没什么经验,所以这么多
: 年也没鼓捣出个道道来。成天就知道说Yes you can!是啊,We can啊,BUT CAN YOU?

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m*e
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可疑的车祸?

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 说说巴顿是咋死的?
:
: 人。

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b*s
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车祸……

说说巴顿是咋死的?
人。

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 说说巴顿是咋死的?
:
: 人。

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w*a
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车祸? 那就是人祸。。。

【在 m**e 的大作中提到】
: 可疑的车祸?
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T*y
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预感到上天会造出我来
活活气死的

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 说说巴顿是咋死的?
:
: 人。

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w*a
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你的牙好些了吗?

【在 m**e 的大作中提到】
: 可疑的车祸?
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w*a
27
您老高寿?

【在 T*****y 的大作中提到】
: 预感到上天会造出我来
: 活活气死的

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m*e
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我的牙好了,谢谢 :)

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 你的牙好些了吗?
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w*a
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不客气。吃点儿元宵吧

【在 m**e 的大作中提到】
: 我的牙好了,谢谢 :)
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m*e
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【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 不客气。吃点儿元宵吧
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m*i
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啥叫"他是一个有christma的人"?

★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 不客气。吃点儿元宵吧
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m*i
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生日暴露贴,哈哈
类似的事我也干过,但忘记配角了

★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 不客气。吃点儿元宵吧
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b*s
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我猜是charismatic的意思吧。

啥叫"他是一个有christma的人"?
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

【在 m***i 的大作中提到】
: 啥叫"他是一个有christma的人"?
:
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

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w*a
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是charisma,哈哈。暴露了我文盲的本质。。。
谢谢啊,读得真细。我写得很粗,光想着赶紧写完了事了。

【在 m***i 的大作中提到】
: 啥叫"他是一个有christma的人"?
:
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

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w*a
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嗯嗯,就是。。。你怎么不早给我指出来。。。这篇破东西折磨了我整个儿一个周末

【在 b*s 的大作中提到】
: 我猜是charismatic的意思吧。
:
: 啥叫"他是一个有christma的人"?
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

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m*e
36
1. 你真懒
2. 有一个东西叫Google。。。

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 嗯嗯,就是。。。你怎么不早给我指出来。。。这篇破东西折磨了我整个儿一个周末
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w*a
37
你这坏...

【在 m**e 的大作中提到】
: 1. 你真懒
: 2. 有一个东西叫Google。。。

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w*a
38
我需要一个小秘。。。

【在 m**e 的大作中提到】
: 1. 你真懒
: 2. 有一个东西叫Google。。。

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b*s
39
我很早就如是说了。

1. 你真懒
2. 有一个东西叫Google。。。

【在 m**e 的大作中提到】
: 1. 你真懒
: 2. 有一个东西叫Google。。。

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w*a
40
我要找你做老秘,吼吼

【在 b*s 的大作中提到】
: 我很早就如是说了。
:
: 1. 你真懒
: 2. 有一个东西叫Google。。。

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z*i
41
pa。。。

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 我要找你做老秘,吼吼
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w*a
42
你,小蜜!

【在 z*i 的大作中提到】
: pa。。。
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m*i
43
晕。我一开始以为我文盲来着。哈哈
我也是在经历一些事情之后才觉得更不同背景的人打交道挺有意思的,摒弃自己一些古
怪性格。这确实是大格局的修为和小格局的个性的不同。
西方人什么都可以拿来当学术工程对象很有意思。也看一点点leadership的文章。

★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.7

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 是charisma,哈哈。暴露了我文盲的本质。。。
: 谢谢啊,读得真细。我写得很粗,光想着赶紧写完了事了。

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j*x
44
还有蜜啦?
xmjdh

【在 w******a 的大作中提到】
: 你,小蜜!
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w*a
45
嗯,把你甩啦

【在 j*****x 的大作中提到】
: 还有蜜啦?
: xmjdh

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