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TED Radio Hour

Disruptive Leadership

What it takes to become a leader and shake up the status quo.

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By Guy Raz • Nov 29, 2015 • 1 min read

Four-star general Stanley McChrystal recounts some tough lessons about leadership he gained from the front lines — to listen, to learn, and to address the possibility of failure. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets to the bottom line for women who want to lead. Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College, shares stories from a school in India that equips rural women for leadership by training them to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors. Drew Dudley, founder of Nuance Leadership Development Services, calls on us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other's lives. Entrepreneur Seth Godin says the Internet has revived the idea of tribes based on shared values and gives ordinary people the power to lead.

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