Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Introduction -- The Proteus problem: Sons of Proteus ; Clockwork ; From complicated to complex ; Doing the right thing -- From many, one: From command to team ; Team of teams -- Sharing: Seeing the system ; Brains out of the footlocker ; Beating the prisoner's dilemma -- Letting go: Hands off ; Leading like a gardener -- Looking ahead: Symmetries.;As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make the same transition to act like a team of teams - where small groups combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share their experience. Drawing on a wealth of evidence from his military career and sources as diverse as hospital emergency rooms and NASA's space program, McChrystal frames the existential challenge facing today's organizations, and presents a compelling, effective solution.