{"product_id":"9780698178519","title":"Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTHE OLD RULES NO LONGER APPLY . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike ruthlessly, then seemingly vanish into the local population. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment, and training—but none of that seemed to matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTEACHING A LEVIATHAN TO IMPROVISE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s no secret that in any field, small teams have many ad­vantages—they can respond quickly, communicate freely, and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy. But organizations taking on \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003ebig challenges can’t fit in a garage. They need management practices that can scale to thousands of people. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e General McChrystal led a hierarchical, highly disci­plined machine of thousands of men and women. But to defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq, his Task Force would have to acquire the enemy’s speed and flexibility. Was there a way to combine the power of the world’s mightiest military with the agility of the world’s most fearsome terrorist network? If so, could the same principles apply in civilian organizations?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NEW APPROACH FOR A NEW WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom and remade the Task Force, in the midst of a grueling war, into something new: a network that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. The walls between silos were torn down. Leaders looked at the best practices of the smallest units and found ways to ex­tend them to thousands of people on three continents, using technology to establish a oneness that would have been impossible even a decade earlier. The Task Force became a “team of teams”—faster, flatter, more flex­ible—and beat back Al Qaeda.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this powerful book, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be rel­evant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and other or­ganizations. The world is changing faster than ever, and the smartest response for those in charge is to give small groups the freedom to experiment while driving every­one to share what they learn across the entire organiza­tion. As the authors argue through compelling examples, the team of teams strategy has worked everywhere from hospital emergency rooms to NASA. It has the potential to transform organizations large and small.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121437491440,"sku":"9780698178519","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698178519_p0.jpg?v=1769917213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698178519","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}