Risk with General Stanley McChrystal

From his first day at West Point to his years of deployment in Afghanistan, retired four-star U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal is no stranger to the deadly risks of combat. Throughout his illustrious career and efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, General McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations have failed to mitigate risk by focusing solely on the probability of something happening as opposed to the interface by which it can be managed.

In his new book, Risk: A User’s Guide, McChrystal and co-author Anna Butrico offer a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. This book offers an alternative way of maintaining a healthy "risk immune system" that involves monitoring 10 different dimensions of control the authors say can be adjusted at any time to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.

Join us as General McChrystal reveals an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

SPEAKERS

General Stanley McChrystal
Retired Army General; Author, Risk: A User’s Guide; Twitter @StanMcChrystal

In Conversation with Dan Ashley
Co-Anchor, ABC 7 News; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors; Twitter @DanAshleyABC7

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.

Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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"Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development, " by The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network
May 2010


🇺🇸 "I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause...I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood." - John Brown

[cherylj]

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[dansherrill]

He's not factoring in the fact that we had an incompetent fool as a president.