general mcchrystal, welcome to washington business report. this book is your effort to teach the business world some of the strategies you use to be successful in the military world. what does team of teams mean? >> if you ink about it all of us have been on some kind of team. maybe we have been on a really good one, where you could finish each other's sentences where things happen n organically. as organizations scale, you run into a limit. beyond 100 people, you cannot know everybody or have the same culture. we found that as you scale, what you have to do i create a series of teams and you have to connect them in ways that most organizations find difficu. it is akin to the relationships between individuals on a great small team. you have to maintain that chemistry between the small teams that together form at -- a big team. rebecca: you talk a lot aut different teams that have been successful. but the bottom line for you you say is scale, efficiency and silos can be the fastest way to getomething done that you make the argument again and a

please join me in welcoming general stanley mcchrystal and chris fussell. [applause]e] >> gentlemen p good morning and thank you so much for honoring us with your presence. certainly appreciate your years and years of service and leadership on behalf of the country. congratulations on the new book, and i'd like to hear a bit more about it, and here is why: people at the senior leadership levels of the military don't necessarily make easy transitions to the business world. and i tell you after reading more and more about the navy seals, it reaffirmed my decision not to be a navy seal. [laughter] not that that was ever an option -- [laughter] but, chris, you know, i'm reading about all of the training all of the training, all of the training. and in my mind becoming a navy seal was meant to be the olympic athlete, it was meant to be for thet best of the best as it relates to the physical specimens. and there's a huge part of that, but it's very clear that you and the general put thispa togetherf with your team that it was much more about teamwork. so forgive

general stanley mcchrystal co-foundedge mcchrystal group inde january 2011 to deliver innovative leadership solutions to american businesses in order to help them transform and succeed inic challenging dynamic environments. a retired four-star general, general mcchrystal is the former commander of both the u.s.en and international security assistance forces, afghanistan. and the nation's premier military counterterrorism force joint special operationsf command. chris fussell is the chief of network management at mcchrystal group leading the sales, marketing and client relations teams. teams. the general operations command where he witnessed firsthand the special operations community's transformation into a successful agile network. today the general will address modern military action, the islamic state and how these lessons do apply to the world of business. please join me in welcoming the general. [applause] i appreciate your years of leadership on behalf of the country. i tell you after reading more and more about the navy seals. i'm reading about all of the training, all of the training

the reason the mcchrystal group are in demand is because they bring clarity to a lot of confusion. they bring absolute certainty about method but not results. rigor, and when he talks about the war, he talks about how in iraq in 2003 took over special operation and by the time he left three years later it increased by 1700% the by 1700% the number of missions they ran on a daily basis. how did they do that? if you think of anything else i has improved 1700% in the last five years? mark know. so where do you go to find leadership? you talk to these people who have been in the heart of the hardest crucible of all. i want to know from these candidates what they think of the current leadership and what they think of the pentagon and if they judge it to be as broken as the veterans of this war believe it to be, and as underfunded. this is a chilling book. mike mike mireles was here, the great war of our time. former director of the cia, not without controversy, 33 years and that agency. two of them as acting director. in the great war of our time he talks about that unless you understan

i'm sure i was talking with joan specie downstairs and the reason the mcchrystal group are in demand in the private sector is because they bring clarity to a lot of confusion. they bring absolute certainty about method, but not resolve rigor and in team of teams when he talks about the war and he talks about how in iraq in 2003 to cover special operation by the time he left three years wrote later it increased by 1700% the number of missions they ran on a daily basis. how do they do that? can think of anything else i has improved 1700% in the last five years? know. when he got up i leadership? you talk to people who have actually been in the middle. how does that help me get ready? i want to know from these president of candidates what they think of the current military leadership and what they think of the pentagon and if they judge it too be has broken as the veterans of this world believe it too be and is it underfunded. this is a chilling book mike morel was here at this library probably at this podium, the great war of our time. former deputy director of the cia two read not wit

he is able to gain new supporters for a strategy thanks to the fact that the trail, mcchrystal's, gates moving on and you now have political supporters of the president moving into positions. you do get the president to buy off on the strategy. we are going to use our drones and special operations forces to kill any enemies that happen to be here. and thisand this then becomes strategy not just for afghanistan before the us presence at large which then it conveniently allows the administration to say we don't need big ground forces because we can use special operations and rounds. >> let's talk about drones for 2nd. when we talk about the hands-off small footprint approach to american conflict, american power particularly in the war on terror this has become a hallmark of the obama administration is. the number of predator drone attacks if you chart the monograph from the bush administration which initiated the use of lethal force administered by unmanned aerial vehicles to the obama administration it is a straight curve up and now it has become the principal tool by which obama and his