Team of Teams

New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

by Stanley A. McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

Team of Teams describes how General Stanley McChrystal reshaped the Joint Special Operations Command to defeat a decentralized adversary. The book argues that rigid, top-down hierarchies struggle in fast-changing environments and proposes a model that pairs shared real-time communication with empowered small teams. It draws on military case material and examples from other sectors to show how organizations of many kinds can adapt. Leaders, managers and anyone responsible for coordinating complex work will find its ideas about structure, information flow and adaptability useful.