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A general explains how JSOC became a flexible network to defeat Al Qaeda, offering leadership lessons for any organization.
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A general explains how JSOC became a flexible network to defeat Al Qaeda, offering leadership lessons for any organization.
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As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering America's most elite warriors. McChrystal came to realize that today's faster, more interdependent world had overwhelmed the conventional, top-down hierarchy of the U.S. military. Al Qaeda had seen the future: a decentralize...
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