Before his students enter the classroom on a Tuesday morning in November, retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal scrawls the phrase “TRUST AND RELATIONSHIPS” in all caps on the whiteboard.
Two months ago, a group of graduate and undergraduate students were intimidated by the University’s new star professor, but now they know better what to expect from his course titled “Leadership.”
“A seminar is like a team,” McChrystal said. “At the end of the day, they’re going to do better if they feel like a team, and so you’ve got to do whatever you can to foster that.”
The assembled students sit down, ready for another day in INRL 690a, the seminar McChrystal created to teach at Yale last semester.
Though class does not begin until 9:20 each Tuesday morning, the seminar room begins to fill with students at 9. One enters the classroom and plops his backpack in a chair. He gulps down a 5-Hour Energy shot, then tosses the plastic container into the trash can and walks to the back of the room, where he pours himself a cup of coffee.
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