Team of Teams Book Summary
New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Book by Stanley McChrystal
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Summary
In Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal shares powerful lessons on how organizations can adapt and succeed in complex, rapidly changing environments by breaking down silos, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of trust, transparency, and decentralized decision-making.
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Good Teams and Trust
"Great teams consist of individuals who have learned to trust each other. Over time, they have discovered each other's strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to play as a coordinated whole."
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
Doing the Right Thing
"Efficiency Is Doing Things Right; Effectiveness Is Doing the Right Thing"
"If you have enough foresight to know with certainty what the 'right thing' is in advance, then efficiency is an apt proxy for effectiveness. In the wayward swirl, however, the correlation between efficiency and effectiveness breaks down. The Task Force had built systems that were very good at doing things right, but too inflexible to do the right thing."
Section: 1, Chapter: 7
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