Audiobooks by Chris Fussell

One Mission: How Leaders Build A Team Of Teams

In One Mission, former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell draws on his extensive experience of high-pressure team work to show how organizations can apply lessons from the field to successfully transform their way of doing business - becoming flatter, quicker, and much more collaborative across departments and divisions. 'Chris Fussell is one of the most dynamic thinkers of our day. His ideas and his perspectives have challenged many of my own assumptions and pushed me to think bigger. I'm smarter because of Chris Fussell. Read this book!' Simon Sinek, bestselling author of Start With Why Whilst sharing his own military experience, Fussell explores examples of transition in companies ranging from industry titans like Intuit and Under Armour to small businesses, which have all adopted the 'Team of Teams' model in order to unite everyone around single compelling mission. The result is a 'shared consciousness' that drives consistently better results with less friction and inter-group rivalry. One Mission is a practical handbook for any leader looking to evolve their workforce into a highly mobile and effective unit and inspire their teams to look beyond their narrow field of vision to understand - and effectively contribute to - the organization's one true mission. The steps of transition include: · Achieving strategic alignment: communicating organizational priorities down the chain of command. · Determining operating rhythm: organizing regular company catch up and feedback sessions. · Setting up communication and decision-making processes: developing a hybrid decision-making structure to empower and inspire every person on the team. · Shifting leadership behaviour: ensuring successful transition with radical humility by starting with the leader and continuing down the chain of command.

Charles Goodyear, Chris Fussell (Author), Chris Fussell, General Stanley Mcchrystal (Narrator)

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One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams

How could we be so highly competent at the small team level, yet incapable of moving with the same agility as an enterprise? If we did not align behind one mission, our individual capabilities would prove insufficient. We could all be great and still lose. This problem -- which former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell observed as part of General Stanley McChrystal’s Special Operations Task Force -- doesn’t keep just military commanders up at night. It plagues leaders of countless organizations in today’s complex and fast-moving world. Too often, well-built companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics in isolation. Their traditional bureaucratic structures create stability, scalability, and predictability; but in a world that demands constant adaptation, this traditional model fails. In One Mission, Fussell offers powerful practical insights about the changes that took place within the Special Operations community, when previously isolated and distrustful tribes became part of a culture that was bigger than any team. By committing to one, higher mission, the community’s overall capability far exceeded the sum of its parts. McChrystal and Fussell wrote about their experiences on the battlefield in their New York Times bestseller Team of Teams. It has been widely embraced in the business world as a roadmap for combining the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization. Since then, as a Partner at McChrystal Group, Fussell has helped companies in many fields implement the Team of Teams approach to tear down their silos, improve collaboration, and avoid turf wars. Now, he has channeled all his experiences, both military and corporate, into One Mission. This practical guide will help leaders in any field… • Build a single aligning narrative for all of your teams, no matter how complicated your org chart, defining your organization, not just what the organization does. • Eliminate excessive bureaucracy by fostering interconnection outside of normal lines of authority. • Create liaison networks that help people from different silos collaborate quickly and effectively. • Define decision spaces that allow teams to have clear autonomy within the context of the greater mission. Fussell shows how a wide range of companies, from Silicon Valley software giant Intuit to a government agency on the plains of Oklahoma, have used these methods to unite their people around a single compelling vision, resulting in superior performance. Moreover, you’ll see how he partnered with Under Armour to synchronize its expanding supply chain, and a Texan emergency medical service organization navigate a changing regulatory landscape. One Mission will help you follow their example to a more agile and resilient future.

C. W. Goodyear, Chris Fussell, General Stanley McChrystal (Author), Chris Fussell, General Stanley McChrystal (Narrator)

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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal, read by Paul Michael. What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment and training - but none of the enemy's speed and flexibility. McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom to create a 'team of teams' that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. Faster, flatter and more flexible, the task force beat back al-Qaeda. In this powerful book, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be relevant to any leader. Through compelling examples, the authors demonstrate that the 'team of teams' strategy has worked everywhere from hospital emergency rooms to NASA and has the potential to transform organizations large and small. 'A bold argument that leaders can help teams become greater than the sum of their parts' Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit 'An indispensable guide to organizational change' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

Chris Fussell, David Silverman, General Stanley Mcchrystal, Tantum Collins (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator)

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Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World

The retired four-star general and and bestselling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, he found that despite the vastly superior resources, manpower, and training of the U.S. military, Al Qaeda had an advantage because of its structure as a loose network of small, independent cells. Those cells wreaked havoc by always staying one step ahead, sharing knowledge with each other via high-tech communications. To defeat such an agile enemy, JSOC had to change its focus from efficiency to adaptability. McChrystal led the transformation of his forces into a network that combined robust centralized communication ("shared consciousness") with decentralized managerial authority ("empowered execution"). Now he shows not only how the military made that transition, but also how similar shifts are possible in all kinds of organizations, from large companies to startups to charities to government agencies. In a world of rapid change, the best organizations think and act like a team of teams, embracing small groups that combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share what they've learned. McChrystal and his colleagues explain their process for helping organizations embrace this model. They also share fascinating research and examples from settings as diverse as emergency rooms and NASA's mission control center. Read by Paul Michael. Introduction and recaps read by General Stanley McChrystal.

Chris Fussell, David Silverman, General Stanley McChrystal, General Stanley Mcchrystal, Tantum Collins (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator)

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