My career when i was a fourstar admirals initiating up the us Southern Command, peterma in charge of all activities south of the United States as the commander of us Pacific Command a very traditionalos position for senior admiral my boss wonderful by secretary gates called me up to say forget about the pacific we will send you to nato. Was the first and as far the only admirable to be a lien supreme allied commander in nato. Is just an accident of timing and fate and secretary gates decision. From a nato perspective i was the accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the naming was an accident as well . Someone. So lets go way back i grew up in the marine corps family my father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in the environment going to Quantico High School and went on to the Naval Academy thinking it would be a marine Corps Officer after my first year the navy sends everybody out on a cruise so you go out on a ship i went out on a beautiful cruise around
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
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Cues and to detect emotions. Hello, everybody, happy friday. My name is beri meric, cofounder and ceo at ivy, and its my pleasure to introduce you to rana el kaliouby. Welcome to ivy. How are you . Good. Happy friday, everybody. Im very well. Thank you so much. Really excited to have you here to share with everybody the context of what were going to be doing today. So rana is the cofounder and ceo and a pioneer of emotional and artificial intelligence. Were going to be having a fascinating conversation on how to reclaim our humanity by bringing Emotional Intelligence to technology. Just a little more about rana, she was named by forbes in their list of americas top 50 women in tech, and fortune recently included her on their list. She was also the cohost of a pbs nova series on a. I. In 2018, and shes an all around awesome person. Its really great to have you here, rana. I just want to share how this topic ties into ivys overall mission. So at ivy, everything we do is to help ourselves
Arizona state university. It is really an honor and pleasure to have you with us today, your latest book, a saga of churchills family and defiance and as all of you probably know i am sure eric is the author fabulous books at dead weight in the garden of thieves, thunderstruck, double and white city. I have read most of your books but ive not read your first book, i was intrigued looking at your biography that you wrote a book called the naked consumer how companies spot on individual consumers, its a very future tense subject, maybe well have you come back and talk about that. I also love on your website, all of you should listen and check out, i think its air clarkson books. Com, i love on your website you have an alternative biography which is fantastic and you describe it as a book that you really like it nobody else did. I seriously doubt the foot im going to take a look at that. So welcome and thank you for having me on. Thank you for viewing with us. I think we should get right