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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2015

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May. Team of Teams : New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell. The Hard Hat : 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate by Jon Gordon. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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Here are My Lessons & Takeaways from Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal – (with a nod to “Alphabet,” the new “Google”)

First Friday Book Synopsis

It’s interesting… Just after I presented my synopsis of Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, (with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell) at our monthly First Friday Book Synopsis, Google announced it’s reorganization into a “Company of Companies.”

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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. How should training evolve in that situation?

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