This book is a brilliant examination and exploration of management in today’s complex and volatile business realities. It is an essential read in how a management system, proactive and comprehensively thought out, is the lynch pin in creating meaningful outcomes in today’s world. McCrystal and team give helpful examples from both business, history and the military. The book is both theoretically sound and practically helpful. On the other hand it is woefully over written. As I read, I kept crying out for an editor who would chop about 20% of the content out for redundancy and bloat. Clearly this could have been written far more succinctly, making it easier for the reader to digest and apply.

An easy book to understand and follow. Brings out things that I see can continue to help the leadership structure I am in right now. Makes it very simple to understand and see the success of such a model of leadership.

It could be used by Silicon Valley leaders, or those on Wall Street - this book takes the lessons learned from multiple disciplines and distills the value into actionable pieces for leaders to use with their team. I found it a quick read, and something that I’ll reference back to when I face challenges in my organization in the future!