Team of Teams

By Stanley A. McChrystal, Chris Fussell, Tantum Collins, David Silverman

Subjects: Reorganization, Military administration, Organization and administration, Organizational effectiveness, Biography, nyt:advice-how-to-and-miscellaneous=2015-05-31, Administrative agencies, Reorganizationunited states. joint special operations command, Organizational change, Decentralization in management, Generals, Urban transportation, Mcchrystal, stanley a, Case studies, New York Times bestseller, Militärväsen, United States. Joint Special Operations Command, Arbetsgrupper, Organisationspsykologi, Organizational Efficiency, United States, Military administration--united states--case studies, Teams in the workplace, Local transit, City planning, Organisatorisk effektivitet, Hd66 .m38185 2015, Organization and Administration, Generals--united states--biography, Efficiency, organizational, Generaler, Organizational behavior, Leadership, 658

Description: As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering America's most elite warriors. McChrystal came to realize that today's faster, more interdependent world had overwhelmed the conventional, top-down hierarchy of the U.S. military. Al Qaeda had seen the future: a decentralized network that could move quickly and strike ruthlessly. To defeat such an enemy, JSOC would have to discard a century of management wisdom, and pivot from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. Under McChrystal's leadership, JSOC remade itself, in the midst of a grueling war, into something entirely new: a network that combined robust centralized communication with decentralized managerial authority. As a result, they beat back Al Qaeda. In this book, McChrystal shows not only how the military made that transition, but also how similar shifts are possible in all organizations, from large companies to startups to charities to governments. In a turbulent world, the best organizations think and act like a team of teams, embracing small groups that combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share what they've learned. Drawing on a wealth of evidence from his military career, the private sector, and sources as diverse as hospital emergency rooms and NASA's space program, McChrystal frames the existential challenge facing today's organizations, and proposes a compelling, effective solution.