What makes a team succeed under pressure, and what makes one fall apart?
In military simulations, your own forces are the blue team and those playing the enemy are the red team. And it's the blue team's dynamics that decide whether a mission succeeds or fails, whether it's a fighter-jet formation on its way to destroy a Syrian nuclear reactor or corporate managers steering a team through an unpredictable market.
Over several years, Yaakov Lappin isolated the three core command, leadership, and management principles, the DNA of blue team dynamics:
- The after-action review culture
- When and how to transition between routine and emergency modes
- How to manage long-term change
A triangle links these three pillars. The ability to consistently learn from the past and stay relevant for the future makes navigating the present far more likely to succeed.
To show how it works in practice, Lappin interviewed ten senior and former members of the Israeli defense establishment, several with extensive civilian executive experience, who reveal how they've personally applied all three. The result is the ultimate insider's view on putting blue team dynamics to work for your team.