Let Go & Lead With Maril Macdonald

From the U.S. Air Force to higher education, General Jay Silveria’s leadership career has been as wide-ranging as they come. After leading pilots into combat and going viral for the anti-racist speech he made while Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy, Silveria now serves as the Executive Director of Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government & Public Service. The thread beneath all his experiences is that he’s a true servant leader — one who invests time in getting to know his people as a mission imperative. He and Maril discuss why innovation starts with leaders, and a “bottom-up” approach to fostering innovation rarely gets the job done; why it’s so critical to de-brief and review not just after things go wrong, but after they succeed as well; and why a leader’s responsibility is to looking ahead, imagining contingencies and planning for what could go wrong. ABOUT LET GO & LEAD Let Go & Lead is a leadership community created by Maril MacDonald, founder and CEO of Gage