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

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

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McChrystal recounts how the Joint Special Operations Command transformed from a rigid military hierarchy into an agile network of teams to defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq. The book argues that in complex, fast-moving environments, organisations must replace command-and-control structures with shared consciousness and empowered execution.

Published:: 2015
Pages:: 304

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In this collection, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World references 5 other books.

It draws on The Fifth Discipline, Thinking in Systems and Extreme Ownership.

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McChrystal's 'team of teams' architecture directly applies Senge's systems thinking from The Fifth Discipline to military and organisational contexts

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The Fifth Discipline

by Peter Senge

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McChrystal draws on Meadows' systems thinking framework to explain why complex adaptive systems cannot be managed with reductionist approaches

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Thinking in Systems

by Donella Meadows

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Both emerged from the same JSOC culture; McChrystal's organisational-level transformation complements Willink and Babin's unit-level extreme ownership principles

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Extreme Ownership

by Jocko Willink

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McChrystal's shared consciousness model addresses the trust and communication breakdowns that Lencioni identifies as the root dysfunctions of teams, but at an inter-team scale

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

by Patrick Lencioni

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Both McChrystal and Marquet advocate distributing decision-making authority; McChrystal's 'empowered execution' parallels Marquet's intent-based leadership aboard the Santa Fe

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Turn the Ship Around!

by L. David Marquet

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