Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
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团队中的团队：复杂世界的新参与规则
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2016
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C. J. Lamb
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《团队的团队：复杂世界的新交战规则》（Team of Teams：New Rules Of Engagement for a Complex World）作者：Stanley A. McChrystal，Tantum柯林斯，大卫西尔弗曼，和克里斯福塞尔组合290页。ISBN-13：9781591847489由CHRISTOPHER J. LAMBGeneral Stanley McChrystal（Ret.）他和他的团队写了一本可以说是过去十年中最重要的关于国家安全的书，但它不太可能在华盛顿，华盛顿特区得到认可。在解释这本书的重要性以及为什么美国首都的许多人会低估它的重要性之前，我们首先需要对这本书及其内容进行总结。这本书，团队之队：《复杂世界的新参与规则》是一本很棒的书，就像麦克里斯特尔以前的畅销书《我的任务份额：回忆录》一样，它带领读者踏上了一段有趣的旅程。在《我分担的任务》一书中，麦克里斯特尔列举了他担任联合特种作战司令部前司令的时间，后来又担任国际安全援助部队和驻阿富汗美军司令。在书中，麦克里斯特尔分享了他的经验和推理，因为他不仅要努力了解我们对手的优势和弱点，还要了解我们自己的战争机器和国家安全决策过程的优势和弱点。使这本书引人注目的许多事情之一是麦克里斯特尔对他的学习过程的坦率，他详细解释了这一点。简而言之，麦克里斯特尔将军和他的部队所做的是通过前所未有的跨组织--包括跨部门--合作来彻底改变反恐行动，这种合作允许情报和行动的实时融合。团队的团队是一个类似的发现之旅，但它将麦克里斯特尔丰富的军事经验置于更广泛的背景下。麦克里斯特尔说，他和他的团队想知道，他们在激烈的战斗中通过试验和错误来击败难以捉摸的敌人，使用古老的非传统战术和21世纪的技术，组织转型“是否是一次性的事件，出现在2003年后的伊拉克的独特因素中，或者它是否是影响当今世界几乎每个组织的更广泛的变化环境的缩影。作者得出了后者的结论，并写了这本书来解释原因。这本书可读性很强;博学而不晦涩，充满了说明性的例子。这本书的整体结构是合乎逻辑的。首先，它认为环境已经改变，由于社会和技术因素，然后解释这些变化的组织的意义，并在这样的环境中取得成功的表现所需的变化，并与领导经验教训如何使转型组织运作良好。章节通常开始与军事的例子，说明一个概念，然后扩大到包括有趣的，往往是迷人的例子，从其他领域的奋进和组织的经验。每一章都以一个“回顾”的阴影框结束，提供了一组回顾要点的子弹。团队中的大多数军事例子都涉及美国特种作战司令部如何不得不大幅改变其组织和文化，以实现必要的灵活性，以跟上伊拉克，阿富汗和其他国家的恐怖分子和叛乱网络的步伐。尽管《团队之队》中有很多军事行动的例子，但任何希望了解美军打击恐怖分子和叛乱分子的历史的人都应该阅读《我的任务》。事实上，阅读我在团队之前的任务份额将帮助读者更充分地了解麦克里斯特尔将军承担的任务的难度，以及他在阿富汗结束职业生涯之前的巨大影响，因为这位评论家认为，由于政治原因，麦克里斯特尔能够保留美国特种作战司令部的传统优势，其中包括大量资源和训练有素、装备精良的部队，同时从整个国家安全架构中抽调资源来增强这些能力。…
Team of Teams: New Rules Of Engagement for a Complex World By Stanley A. McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell Portfolio 290 pp. ISBN-13: 9781591847489REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER J. LAMBGeneral Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) and his team have written what is arguably the most important book on national security in the past decade, but it is not likely to be recognized as such in Washington, D.C. Before explaining the book's import and why many in the nation's capital will underestimate its significance, we first need a summary of the book and its contents.The book, Team of Teams: New Rules Of Engagement for A Complex World, is a great read and like McChrystal's previous best seller, My Share of the Task: A Memoir, takes readers on an interesting journey. In My Share of the Task, McChrystal catalogued his time as a former Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, and then later, as Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan. In it McChrystal shares his experience and reasoning as he struggles to understand not only the strengths and weaknesses of our adversaries but also those of our own war machine and national security decisionmaking process. One of the many things that make that book compelling is McChrystal's candor about his learning process, which he explains in detail. In short and simple terms, what General McChrystal and his forces did was revolutionize counterterrorism operations with unprecedented levels of cross-organizational-including interagency- collaboration that permitted a real-time fusing of intelligence and operations.Team of Teams is a similar journey of discovery, but one that puts McChrystal's extensive military experience in a much broader context. McChrystal says he and his team wanted to know whether the organizational transformation they forged by trial and error in the heat of battle to defeat elusive enemies using age-old unconventional tactics and 21st century technology "was a one-off occurrence that emerged from the unique factors of post2003 Iraq, or whether it was a microcosm of a broader changed environment that impacts almost every organization in today's world." The authors conclude the latter and wrote the book to explain why.The book is highly readable; erudite without being impenetrable, and full of illustrative examples. The overall structure of the book is logical. It begins by arguing the environment has changed due to social and technological factors; then explains the significance of these changes for organizations and the resultant changes required for successful performance in such an environment; and concludes with leadership lessons for how to make transformed organizations function well. Chapters typically begin with military examples that illustrate a concept, then broaden to include interesting and often fascinating examples from other fields of endeavor and organizational experiences. Each chapter ends with a "recap" shadow box that offers a set of bullets reviewing main points.Most of the military examples in Team of Teams relate how the U.S. Special Operations Command had to dramatically change its organization and culture to achieve the agility necessary to keep pace with the terrorists and insurgent networks in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. Although Team of Teams is sprinkled with examples from military operations, anyone hoping for a historical account of the U.S. military's fight against terrorists and insurgents should read My Share of the Task. Indeed, reading My Share of the Task before Team of Teams will help readers who want to more fully appreciate the difficulty of the task General McChrystal took on and the tremendous impact he had before his career ended in Afghanistan for what this reviewer believes were poorly thought through political reasons.McChrystal was able to retain the traditional strengths of the U.S. Special Operations Command, which include vast resources and superbly trained and equipped forces, while augmenting those capabilities with assets from across the national security architecture. …