Build a Team of Teams
4min2020 AUG 26
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Retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal is best known for creating a comprehensive counter-terrorism organization that revolutionized the interagency operating culture. His reforms made the U.S. Army lean, mean, and responsive to the ever-changing threats posed by modern foes. In this lesson, McChrystal explores how to use shared consciousness and team-based performance incentives to bring individuals into alignment with your organization’s mission and goals.Use transparency to uncover rogue agents and weak linksSmall teams may go rogue with:Good intentions, but poor understandingBad IntentionsThe transparency afforded by shared consciousness protects against either scenario.Use transparency to uncover rogue agents and weak linksIneffective individuals are quickly surfaced in a culture with shared consciousness.Evaluate team performance, not individual performanceIncentivize a combined outcome, not individual success.