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Team of Teams
New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

By Stanley McChrystal

Year Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1591847489
Categories: Agility, Leadership, Teams

114 Quotes Found

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Team of Teams:

We’re not lazier or less intelligent than our parents or grandparents, but what worked for them simply won’t do the trick for us now.

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Team of Teams:

Efficiency remains important, but the ability to adapt to complexity and continual change has become an imperative.

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Team of Teams:

…much to our disappointment,… Big Data will offer no respite from the unrelenting demand for continual adaptability.

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Team of Teams:

…to succeed, maybe even to survive, in the new environment, organizations and leaders must fundamentally change.

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Team of Teams:

Efficiency, once the sole icon on the hill, must make room for adaptability in structures, processes, and mind-sets that is often uncomfortable.

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Team of Teams:

…the constantly changing, entirely unforgiving environment in which we all now operate denies the satisfaction of any permanent fix.

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Team of Teams:

…feeling comfortable or dodging criticism should not be our measure of success… what really matters is succeeding.

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Team of Teams:

The models of organizational success that dominated the twentieth century have their roots in the industrial revolution and, simply put, the world has changed.

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Team of Teams:

Adaptability, not efficiency, must become our central competency.

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Team of Teams:

Interconnectedness and the ability to transmit information instantly can endow small groups with unpresented influence…

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