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:

The rules for any meeting are established more by precedent and demonstrated behavior than by written guidance.

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Team of Teams:

Even the most successful of today’s heroic leaders appear uneasy in the saddle, all too aware that their ability to understand and control is a chimera. We have to begin leading differently.

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Team of Teams:

Creativity and leading a truly adaptive organization requires building, leading, and maintaining a culture that is flexible but also durable.

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Team of Teams:

The leader’s first responsibility is to the whole.

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Team of Teams:

A leader’s words matter, but actions ultimately do more to reinforce or undermine the implementation of a team of teams.

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Team of Teams:

Instead of exploiting technology to monitor employee performance… the leader must allow team members to monitor him.

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Team of Teams:

More than directing, leaders must exhibit personal transparency. This is the new ideal.

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Team of Teams:

…a system requires shared consciousness before it can reap the benefits of empowered execution.

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Team of Teams:

Just as empowerment without sharing fails, so does sharing without empowerment.

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Team of Teams:

Shared consciousness is a carefully maintained set of centralized forums for bringing people together.

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