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Stanley A. McChrystal
Leadership & Management
Stanley A. McChrystal is a retired U.S. Army general whose leadership writing explores organizational adaptability, shared communication, and decentralized authority.
Biography
Stanley Allen McChrystal is a retired United States Army general who commanded Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008. He subsequently served as Director of the Joint Staff and as commander of both the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces–Afghanistan. His command in Afghanistan ended in June 2010 after President Barack Obama accepted his resignation following a Rolling Stone article reporting unflattering remarks attributed to him and his aides.
Since 2010, McChrystal has taught international relations courses at Yale University as a Senior Fellow of its Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. His book Team of Teams draws on military experience and examples from other sectors to examine how organizations can replace rigid hierarchies with networks that combine shared information and decentralized decision-making.
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Books by Stanley A. McChrystal
Team of Teams
Team of Teams describes how Joint Special Operations Command moved from a conventional top-down hierarchy toward a network combining centralized communication with decentralized authority. It explores how businesses, charities, governments, and other organizations can adopt similar approaches to become more adaptable.