Brett Craven

“Peter Drucker had a catchy statement: “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“British anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorized that the number of people an individual can actually trust usually falls between 100 and 230 (a more specific variant was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the “Rule of 150” in his book Outliers”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive

“we had to unlearn a great deal of what we thought we knew about how war—and the world—worked. We had to tear down familiar organizational structures and rebuild them along completely different lines, swapping our sturdy architecture for organic fluidity, because it was the only way to confront a rising tide of complex threats. Specifically, we restructured our force from the ground up on principles of extremely transparent information sharing (what we call “shared consciousness”) and decentralized decision-making authority (“empowered execution”). We dissolved the barriers—the walls of our silos and the floors of our hierarchies—that had once made us efficient. We looked at the behaviors of our smallest units and found ways to extend them to an organization of thousands, spread across three continents. We became what we called “a team of teams”: a large command that captured at scale the traits of agility normally limited to small teams.”
― General S McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World