Team of Teams

Advantages - how flexible structures help organizations adapt to their environment - experiences of high-performance teams under extreme conditions - encourages the improvisational willingness of an organization.

About the work: When the speed of environmental adaptation becomes a success factor, flexible units that can act independently under centrally set guidelines are needed. This book distills the experiences of high-performing teams, exemplified by the ISAF troops in their fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and aims to stimulate the improvisational willingness even in "normal" organizations. The good news for those willing to change: No master has fallen from the sky. The bad news: There is only temporary stability; one must keep moving.

General Stanley Allen McChrystal, former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and commander of ISAF and US Forces in Afghanistan, develops a clear understanding of successful base units in uncertain situations based on his experiences in "Team of Teams." These units excel when interlocking teams form the organizations, guiding principles regulate interactions, and nothing is permanent - not even the guiding principles, as they are merely a response to the current interpretation of the situation.

Highlights from the content: Almost all major innovations have emerged from teams. The most important lesson in the fight for survival is adaptability at high speed. Reviving a simple principle of organizational design: Organizations must adapt their philosophy and structure to the realities of the field in which they operate. In manageable, decentralized teams, it is easier for (spontaneous) solutions to emerge, enabling quick responsiveness in unknown or only partially known situations. Team members.