Works
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, Portfolio/Penguin, New York, 2015
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The team-of-teams account of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq
Ideas
Team of teams. A large organization facing a fast, networked adversary must become a network of small teams joined by shared awareness and empowered execution, faster, flatter, and more flexible than a command hierarchy. Caveat: Practitioner lore, a book by the former task force commander and three co-authors, not his memoir (Shultz 2016 names My Share of the Task as the memoir and Team of Teams as his later book); experiments with multiteam systems find that decentralization can cost more than it gains when teams are highly interdependent (Lanaj and others 2013).