A team of teams model creates decentralization and empowerment, but personnel in the system still need to be regularly resynchronized on key insights and strategic intent if their actions are to sit within risk thresholds. Finding this balance—between synchronization and action—will become one of two major practices to control for risk within a tea

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In the Task Force, physical and virtual realms were created to provide potential boundary spanners with the ability to independently familiarize themselves with one another’s teams, perceive one another’s needs, and identify which of them might be facing a higher-priority issue at any given moment. They could then solve their own issues, well ahead

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