We may have more data and advanced technology today, but our environment has also become much more complex and uncertain.
The key is to stop trying to predict or control complex systems. Instead, focus on making yourself more adaptable and resilient, so you can respond effectively to unexpected events.
While there are many successful stories of amazing teams within an organization, it's much harder to scale the flexibility and dynamism of such teams across thousands of people. That's where you require a team of teams structure, to replicate the impact of agile teams on a large scale.
To build a team of teams we need shared consciousness and empowered execution. As our world becomes more complex, great leaders play an even more vital role to offer courage, empathy and inspiration.
Some insights given in the book "Team of Teams", by Stan McChrystal, about organizing in a complex and uncertain world. The temptation to lead as a chess master, controlling each move of the organization, must give way to an approach as a gardener, enabling rather than directing.
