Team of Teams Quotes

“In a resilience paradigm, managers accept the reality that they will inevitably confront unpredicted threats; rather than erecting strong, specialized defenses, they create systems that aim to roll with the punches, or even benefit from them. Resilient systems are those that can encounter unforeseen threats and, when necessary, put themselves back together again.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Robustness is achieved by strengthening parts of the system (the pyramid); resilience is the result of linking elements that allow them to reconfigure or adapt in response to change or damage (the coral reef).”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“In a complex world, disturbances are inevitable, making such a capacity to absorb shocks increasingly important.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“The world of “many to many” has produced tremendous gains in some sectors, but these gains have come at a high cost in others—specifically those that require coordination at scale.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“The reality is that small things in a complex system may have no effect or a massive one, and it is virtually impossible to know which will turn out to be the case.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Efficiency is no longer enough.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Reductionism lay at the heart of this drive for efficiency.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Under Taylor’s formulation, managers were both research scientists and architects of efficiency.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Complex systems are fickle and volatile, presenting a broad range of possible outcomes; the type and sheer number of interactions prevent us from making accurate predictions.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“the developments of recent years have led to a completely different—and less predictable—world.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“Complexity, on the other hand, occurs when the number of interactions between components increases dramatically—the interdependencies that allow viruses and bank runs to spread; this is where things quickly become unpredictable.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World