Team of Teams

General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

A world-class hierarchy was losing to a scrappy network. The fix wasn't a better plan — it was rebuilding the organization so information and decisions flowed like a network too.

Drawing on the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force's fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq, McChrystal argues that a fast, interconnected world defeats the efficient, siloed org chart — and that leaders must trade top-down control for shared consciousness and empowered execution.