Jared Diamond
American evolutionary biologist, geographer and writer, and professor emeritus at UCLA. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs, and Steel. His research addresses the evolution of civilizations and leadership.
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On the Huberman Lab podcast interview, Jared Diamond said that the most common misconception about leadership is the belief that a leader must be charismatic, and called this nonsense.
Diamond proposed that there are about 37 ways to become an effective leader, and charisma is only one of them.
Diamond analyzed 22 important political leaders after World War II and found that only two of them, Nelson Mandela and Lee Kuan Yew, stepped down voluntarily.
The table of 22 leaders listed in Diamond's book includes Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Anwar Sadat and others; among them, Sadat was assassinated, Hitler committed suicide, and Churchill was voted out of office.
Diamond considers Hitler unique: he was the most demagogic orator of the 20th century, and only Hitler thought of carrying out the massacre of Jews on an industrial scale; without Hitler there might not have been a Holocaust.
The analysis of variance cited by Diamond shows that about 15%-30% of the variance in athletic performance is attributed to the coach, with a similar proportion attributed to the players and the institution; in the business world CEOs likewise contribute about 30% of the variance.
Diamond used a dice-rolling analogy to explain the effect of changing coaches: if you fire the dice thrower whenever a 1 is rolled, the probability that the next thrower rolls a better result is five-sixths.
Diamond was born in 1937, is now 89 years old, has studied 13 languages, and holds a two-hour conversation each week with an Italian professor at the University of Southern California.
Diamond is listening to all 210 of Bach's church cantatas at a rate of about one work per week, and expects to finish in three to four years.
Diamond's postdoctoral experience in the Harvard Society of Fellows gave him the freedom to inform his biophysics lab boss that he was going to New Guinea for three months in the summer to study birds, without needing to ask permission.
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On the Huberman Lab podcast interview, Jared Diamond said that the most common misconception about leadership is the belief that a leader must be charismatic, and called this nonsense.
50%UnverifiedDiamond proposed that there are about 37 ways to become an effective leader, and charisma is only one of them.
50%UnverifiedDiamond analyzed 22 important political leaders after World War II and found that only two of them, Nelson Mandela and Lee Kuan Yew, stepped down voluntarily.
50%UnverifiedThe table of 22 leaders listed in Diamond's book includes Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Anwar Sadat and others; among them, Sadat was assassinated, Hitler committed suicide, and Churchill was voted out of office.
50%UnverifiedDiamond considers Hitler unique: he was the most demagogic orator of the 20th century, and only Hitler thought of carrying out the massacre of Jews on an industrial scale; without Hitler there might not have been a Holocaust.
50%UnverifiedThe analysis of variance cited by Diamond shows that about 15%-30% of the variance in athletic performance is attributed to the coach, with a similar proportion attributed to the players and the institution; in the business world CEOs likewise contribute about 30% of the variance.
50%UnverifiedDiamond used a dice-rolling analogy to explain the effect of changing coaches: if you fire the dice thrower whenever a 1 is rolled, the probability that the next thrower rolls a better result is five-sixths.
50%UnverifiedDiamond was born in 1937, is now 89 years old, has studied 13 languages, and holds a two-hour conversation each week with an Italian professor at the University of Southern California.
50%UnverifiedDiamond is listening to all 210 of Bach's church cantatas at a rate of about one work per week, and expects to finish in three to four years.
50%UnverifiedDiamond's postdoctoral experience in the Harvard Society of Fellows gave him the freedom to inform his biophysics lab boss that he was going to New Guinea for three months in the summer to study birds, without needing to ask permission.
50%UnverifiedDiamond cited three principles from the late biologist Tom Lovejoy's father: do what you are good at, do what you enjoy, and do something that has an impact on the world.
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