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What Companies Can Learn from Military Teams

Harvard Business Review

In the new book Team of Teams , McChrystal describes the lessons he learned (and applied) in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as research and examples from other fields (including sports, aviation, and emergency medicine) on how teams have learned to work more effectively. He’s also founded a consulting firm called CrossLead.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

The necessary and artful tango between inner-directed and outward-focused, first chronicled in David Reisman's landmark 1950 book The Lonely Crowd , has been problematically transformed by technology. But what about younger people just entering a traditional office environment? There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.