This is a follow-up to Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. If you haven't read it, don't worry - everything you need to know is summarized here. While McChrystal USA (Ret.), Gen. Stanley A.'s book presented the Team of Teams model, this book is a kind of missing manual on how to implement it.

The content of this book is solid. The whole Team of Teams model might not be groundbreaking, especially for modern and agile companies, but the fact it's pretty simple doesn't mean that its implementation is easy. On contrary, it requires a deep cultural change and collective mindset shift for the whole organization. This book shows what it takes to flatten hierarchies, bridge silos, and deliver at speed and scale. It describes in detail real-life examples of transformations, highlighting possible challenges and solutions that were used to overcome them.

This subject is exciting, stories of organizations going through a work revolution are intriguing, the impact of the new way of thinking about work and organizational design could be huge! BUT somehow this book manages to make it dull and uninspiring. There is no passion, clear narrative, and flow, which makes reading this book a drag. The same ideas are repeated multiple times, without adding a new perspective or context to them, and described in a distanced and formal language that doesn't engage the reader at all.

As much as I was interested in this book's insights and find them valuable, its listening experience was terrible. I often caught myself drifting away with my thoughts and needed to force myself to focus on the audiobook. The frequent changes in the recording quality didn't make it easier either. Great content, but not-so-great delivery. ( )

Chris Fussell is a Partner at the McChrystal Group Leadership Institute and co-author of Team of Teams, a New York Times bestseller and the first book in the Team of Teams series.