526: The 18 Things That Make You A Bad Soldier and a Bad Leader, In Battle and in Life.
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This is Jocko podcast number 526 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. What makes a good soldier? What makes a good leader?
What makes a poor soldier? What makes a poor leader? There are many opinions about this, and a lot of them are different, but also there are patterns. And we have certainly discussed some of the patterns of good and bad leaders. But
Leadership and human nature is not a science, certainly. There are a lot of variables. There's a lot of idiosyncrasies, there are a lot of nuances that make human interaction difficult. I found a, I guess it's a somewhat of a scientific approach to this from the Department of the Army personnel branch. Department of the Army personnel research branch.
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