What Makes Great Leaders & How to Live an Extraordinary Life | Dr. Jared Diamond

Diamond finds leadership success depends on situational luck and structural factors, not fixed personality traits like charisma.

• No single leadership formula: Diamond argues there are roughly 37 ways to be an effective leader—charisma (Hitler) is just one; Stalin and Pinochet succeeded without it.
• Hitler's near-misses: A 1930 car crash and Stauffenberg's 1944 bomb plot nearly killed Hitler before he could cause WWII and the Holocaust, raising counterfactual questions about individual impact on history.

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