Book Review: One Mission - How Leaders Build Team of Teams by Chris Fussell

One Mission - How Leaders Build Team of Teams by Chris Fussell.
This is a Wow reaction-creating book! Written by a former US Navy Seal with a welcoming and down to earth spirit, the book is full of great leadership and organizational practical lessons that can turn an organization around.
To the increasing complexity of operating in the world today, Chris responds with and by recommending simplicity.
The author argues that by sharing information in a O&I (Operation & Intelligence) like forum that fosters openness and rewards people for sharing information, everyone gains, work is optimized and mistakes and blunders are avoided. That in order to achieve this, leaders need to find new ways of measuring progress and rewarding good performance.
Every organization needs to shorten the time between the reception of new information (X1) and the decision and empowerment to act on it (X2). Chris further argues that when teams are given access to key data, invited to relevant strategic conversations, and are encouraged to independently leverage relationships to enable cross-boundary collaboration, their ability to problem-solve can quickly increase.
The author shows that in order to achieve this, members must trust one another, they must be bound by a sense of common purpose and they must have a shared access to information.
4 Extracts from the book :
1. "These types of people, labeled deviants by social science in the late twentieth century, are those among us who are prone to find new solutions despite what formal doctrine or accepted norms might dictate - a critical behavioral phenomenon that predates modernity "

2. " Organizations are not collections of buildings, technology, or assets ; they're a collection of individual humans who take advantage of these tools to a common end. "

3. " Today's leaders must clearly and consistently explain to their organization that no single person is truly the stand-alone hero ; rather, team members must collectively strive to listen, learn and share with one another if they hope to navigate the turbulent waters of the twenty-first century. They are the ones who must connect to solve problems."

4. " Aligning teams, communicating with transparency, decentralizing decision making - these stand-alone concepts aren't new. But if organizations are willing to truly embody them together, linchpinned by leaders who can assume humble, nonheroic roles and individual team members who embrace new realms of responsibility, they will set the standard for effective enterprise in the years to come.


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