The information age has ushered in a networked and interdependent world, one in which challenges and opportunities appear and disappear faster than traditional organizational models can manage. Chris Fussell Read Quote
The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won’t tell you where they are. Chris Fussell Read Quote
Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does. Chris Fussell Read Quote
As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners. Chris Fussell Read Quote
The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age. Chris Fussell Read Quote
When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier’s leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships. Chris Fussell Read Quote
As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed. Chris Fussell Read Quote
Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they’re put into the fight, but it’s a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that’s designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you’re naturally going to overextend it. Chris Fussell Read Quote
The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can suddenly create, free flow these globally distributed, organic, shaped networks of individuals. Chris Fussell Read Quote
The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that’s what the competition’s doing. Chris Fussell Read Quote
