Match BookTeam of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Stanley McChrystal
2015 · 304 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World is narrative nonfiction (leadership and management, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in an international setting, in the recent past, told in the first person by several narrators. Its central concerns are power and politics, friendship and survival. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 304 pages it's a quick read. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something hopeful
- you want a complete story in one book
- you want to be sure it ends well
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy or dark
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- international
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- hopeful
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, several narrators
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- power and politics, friendship, survival
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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