As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.

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

The information age has ushered in a networked and interdependent world, one in which challenges and opportunities appear and disappear faster than traditional organizational models can manage.

By providing clear objectives for your team, and setting guardrails for how they get there, you will set them on the path to success.

Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.

When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.