Book Titles

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:

An individual who makes a decision becomes more invested in the outcome.

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Team of Teams:

…’empowerment’… should be done only if the recipients of newfound authority have the necessary sense of perspective to act on it wisely.

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Team of Teams:

Effective adaptation to emerging threats and opportunities requires the disciplined practice of empowered execution.

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Team of Teams:

Individuals and teams closest to the problem, armed with unprecedented levels of insights from across the network, offer the best ability to decide and act decisively.

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Team of Teams:

The organization as a rigidly reductionist mechanical beast is an endangered species.

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The speed and interconnected nature of the new world in which we function have rendered it too stupid and slow to survive the onslaught of predators.

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Team of Teams:

…the speed and interdependence of our current environment means that what we cannot know has grown even faster than what we can.

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Team of Teams:

…senior leaders are now more important than ever, but the role is very different from that of the traditional heroic decision maker.

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Team of Teams:

The role of the senior leader [is] no longer that of controlling puppet master, but rather than of an empathetic crafter of culture.

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Team of Teams:

Attention studies have shown that most people can thoughtfully consider only one thing at a time, and that multitasking dramatically degrades our ability to accomplish tasks requiring cognitive concentration.

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