Reframing Organizations, 7th Edition

Chapter 5Organizing Groups and Teams

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

—Helen Keller

On May 2, 2011, Stealth Hawk helicopters carried two units of SEAL Team Six Red Squadron for Operation Neptune Spear—the assault on Osama bin Laden's lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The outcome of their mission “to interdict a high value target in a non‐permissive environment” has taken its place in history, though there are conflicting accounts of the actual combat. The fog of war perennially invites many interpretations.

 

Red Squadron's success owed much to awesome weaponry and the unsurpassed courage and pluck of its highly trained operators. But many after‐the‐fact commentators agree that the real secret of its success is the astonishing ...