One Mission
"In Team of Teams, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal and former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell made the case for a new organizational model combining the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization. Now, in One Mission, Fussell channels all his experiences, both military and corporate, into powerful strategies for unifying isolated and distrustful teams."
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- Good book on building organizational systems that are able to deal with many different situations:
One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams:
https://www.amazon.ca/One-Mission-Leaders-Build-Teams/dp/073...
- I’ve downloaded a copy of the PDF book.
So firstly, thank you!
I’ve both studied and created affinity networks.
The most recent network(both online/meatspace)I created(in partnership with 8 others) over the last 2.5 years has achieved repeated national recognition from our Prime Minister and relevant Cabinet Minister.
So I’ve got some relevant hybrid network building experience.
Although being a successful builder, doesn’t necessarily qualify me as a capable engineer.
My network/community/org building has been informed by “Team of Team” by Stan McChrystal and “One Mission” by Chris Fussell.
Team of Teams is the macro to the One Mission micro.
What also informed our network/community/orgs the failure of Arab Spring, Tea Party, and Occupy Movement.
Being a student of unconventional warfare and counter-insurgency theory there are advantages to agile/adaptive distributed/decentralised networks.
I’m a big fan of the McChrystal/Fussell org charts of a cloud network that incorporates and overlays just enough hierarchical “skeletal structure” to prevent it from collapsing upon itself akin to Occupy/Tea Party.
The study of non-violent movements is quite fascinating and there is a significant body of work available for free found here:
Einstein Institute:
https://www.aeinstein.org/free-resources/
Canvas:
http://canvasopedia.org/publications/
We are building our network “rocket” as we are flying it. But it’s nice to have resources to beg, borrow, or “steal like an artist”.
When it comes to building networks, I think it is equal parts art and behaviour science matched to the right cause/time.
In short, I view network engineering as building a cult, with a Net Promoter Score of 9+.
