rebecca: when we come back, more with general stanley mcchrystal. he tells us how to fail without being a failure. stay with us. rebecca: welcome back. in part two of our interview with general stanley mcchrystal, he tells us how to fail up in the business world. let's talk about some of the things you teach about leadership. it struck me that one of your lessons on leadership is, you say leaders n let you fail and not let you believe youre a failure. you say you learned thaearly on when you are a young soldier. you wewere in training, and there were some e things youere not good at, that you failed at, and you had a cmander thatt build you back up again. that struck me because the civilian side sees the military at least in the movies, athe coander's beating you down and making sure you do feel like a failure to build you back up again. talk about that experience and how you try to use that now. general mcchrystal: i was a company commander, had about 20 soldieiers and armored vehicles. we were doing a big exercise in california. we had done a dawn

general stanley mcchrystal co-foundedge mcchrystal group inde january 2011 to deliver innovative leadership solutions to american businesses in order to help them transform and succeed inic challenging dynamic environments. a retired four-star general, general mcchrystal is the former commander of both the u.s.en and international security assistance forces, afghanistan. and the nation's premier military counterterrorism force joint special operationsf command. chris fussell is the chief of network management at mcchrystal group leading the sales, marketing and client relations teams. teams. the general operations command where he witnessed firsthand the special operations community's transformation into a successful agile network. today the general will address modern military action, the islamic state and how these lessons do apply to the world of business. please join me in welcoming the general. [applause] i appreciate your years of leadership on behalf of the country. i tell you after reading more and more about the navy seals. i'm reading about all of the training, all of the training

army general stanley mcchrystal talking about how lessons he learned on the battlefield can be applied tons the professional world. >> on behalf of comcast spotlight, it is my privilege to introduce you to today's special guest, general stanley mccristal, and chris -- mccristal, and chris fussell. some -- their new book, "team of teams: new rules of engagement in a complex world," focuses onen team leadership with emphasis on empowering others, engaging employees, managing through technology and leading in a time of increasing complications. general stanley mcchrystalde cofounded mcchrystal group in january 2011 to deliver innovative business solutions inic order to help american businesses transform and succeed in challenging, dynamic environments. a retired four-star general general mcchrystal is the former commander of the u.s. security forces, ask and thena nation's premier joint special operations command.r chris fussell is the chief of network management at mcchrystal group leading the sales, marketing and client relations teams. chris served during general mcchrystal's final yea

when he's at all talk about stanley mcchrystal, that is the best interview by a longshot shot that i've ever done. when he writes that in my book, i'm happy. how do you get there and how to get ready for debate question right that's what what i want to talk about tonight. first i want to thank book tv for being here. when i go to my bag of tricks, there are a lot of them here, first i hold up the book called sundays at eight by one brian lamb. if any of you came to me we spent three hours talking together, he is my model as an interviewer. i. i hold up a second book on the first ladies of the united states. who is also along with brian lamb, one of the makers of what is book tv. i want everyone want everyone to know that book tv is here for people on the weekend for people who love books. these are oases in a land of sand bite where you actually have conversation. i think brian lamb and peter are so thorough that if everyone studied them like i have studied them, you would have a lot better media. in fact the 1i artie mentioned, jake, chuck john dickerson, they are all themselves author

is next two books are about the great war in which we are engaged in one is by stanley mcchrystal king of kings which is change the way i do my radio show already. i'm sure i was talking with joan specie downstairs and the reason the mcchrystal group are in demand in the private sector is because they bring clarity to a lot of confusion. they bring absolute certainty about method, but not resolve rigor and in team of teams when he talks about the war and he talks about how in iraq in 2003 to cover special operation by the time he left three years wrote later it increased by 1700% the number of missions they ran on a daily basis. how do they do that? can think of anything else i has improved 1700% in the last five years? know. when he got up i leadership? you talk to people who have actually been in the middle. how does that help me get ready? i want to know from these president of candidates what they think of the current military leadership and what they think of the pentagon and if they judge it too be has broken as the veterans of this world believe it too be and is it underfunded.