The Way of the Team: Unconventional Warfare, Special Forces and Startups

In today’s world of ever greater complexity and competition. It is no longer enough to develop our skills and abilities to contribute and compete individually. We must ever more so, develop ourselves into successfully contributing members of highly functional teams. Over course of three decades academic and professional life, I’ve developed an acceptance. High functioning teams require constant balancing between competing forces within each member, the team and across teams and organizations. Even across entire ecosystems and economies. During these decades of experience and careful observation, I’ve distilled out a 5 Vector Model provides for rapid understanding of the powerful competing forces we individually and collectively contend with and constantly balance. Individually and as members of highly functional teams.