Chris Fussell

The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age. ”

In 2010, I was an executive officer in the Navy, splitting my time between U.S. headquarters and being deployed to an international location. ”

It's difficult to feel as though you are truly being effective at work. Many of us feel trapped in endless meetings, with barely any time to grab lunch, let alone do any work. Overarching strategies and key priorities seem completely divorced from the day-to-day tactics. ”

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. ”