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:

By embracing humility – recognizing the inevitability of surprises and unknowns – and concentrating on systems that can survive and indeed benefit from such surprises, we can triumph over volatility.

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…all the efficiency in the world has no value if it remains statis in a volatile environment.

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right thing. – Peter Drucker

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…teams can be either far less or far more than the sum of their rosters.

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The structural and functional distinctions between commands and teams have serious ramifications for adaptability.

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…teams whose members know one another deeply perform better.

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Team members must all work toward the same goal, and in volatile, complex environments that goal is changeable.

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Team of Teams:

As you travel down a traditional org chart, motivation and contextual awareness become more limited and specific, and more remote from the organization’s overall strategic aims.

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Team members tackling complex environments must all grasp the team’s situation and overarching purpose.

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[Individual team members] must be collectively responsible for the team’s success and understand everything that responsibility entails.

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