Positive Leadership: Essential Aspects of Leadership

General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal speaks to Stanford Graduate School of Business students about essential aspects of leadership such as trust, purpose, and adaptability. 

"Talent alone doesn't make a great team. You need faith in your colleagues and alignment behind a common goal," shared McChrystal. 

Positive Leadership: Essential Aspects of Leadership

Positive Leadership: Do Something That Transcends Yourself

Shaherose Charania, co-founder of Women 2.0, says she is driven by doing impactful work that transcends herself. 

“Two things in my life always fuel my energy: helping others and innovating with technology. From a young age, through my parents’ teaching and the lessons of my faith, I have felt responsible to give back - to share my time, my energy, my knowledge. In fact, my faith tells me that ‘to save one life is as if to save the entirety of humankind.’ Early on I gained perspective by traveling to developing places and seeing my own relatives, my own people, living in ways starkly different from my own. I learned that whatever I could offer, even if it seemed simple, could create change - and by changing one life, perhaps in some way I could contribute something helpful to all of humankind,” Charania says.

“Technology shows me new ways to contribute and create change on a new scale. It helps illuminate ways of using faith, intellect, and innovation to help improve lives, even societies. Through Founder Labs and Women 2.0, I am able to offer what I have to others, enabling them to see and perhaps build new opportunities and to bring new companies and new solutions to the world. That privilege renews me, making me grateful and energised to move forward and face obstacles.”

Positive Leadership: Do Something That Transcends Yourself