Team of Teams
Strategy & Leadership

Team of Teams

General Stanley McChrystal· Published 2015

How the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force revamped its structure to fight a decentralized enemy, focusing on shared consciousness and empowered execution.

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Why It's On My Shelf

McChrystal shows how organizations can succeed in environments where complexity and change outpace hierarchy. The principles of shared consciousness and empowered execution translate directly to modern IT and digital organizations. For CIOs, the key lesson is that speed comes from trust, transparency, and decentralized decision-making aligned to a common mission. This book is most helpful when silos slow delivery, governance becomes a bottleneck, or response times lag market realities. It provides a leadership model for moving from tight control to tight alignment.

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