Team of Teams New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

eBook - 2015

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Share of the Task and Leaders comes a manual for leaders looking to make their teams more adaptable, agile, and unified in the midst of change. When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike ruthlessly, then seemingly vanish into the local population. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment, and training—but none of that seemed to matter. To defeat Al Qaeda, they would have to combine the power of the world’s mightiest military with the agility of the world’s most fearsome ...terrorist network. They would have to become a "team of teams"—faster, flatter, and more flexible than ever.In Team of Teams, McChrystal and his colleagues show how... more