Some organizations become a “self-licking ice cream cone.” This is a system that exists only to sustain itself. It will never achieve any meaningful outcomes. These entities justify their existence...
Posts about OODA:
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AGLX Launches In Singapore
We are very excited to announce that AGLX Asia Pacific has now opened an office in Singapore. Zhen Goh joins our team as Managing Director and will lead our work from the Singapore Office. Zhen has...
Within the OODA loop, Orientation is what makes You You. What Makes You You. Cognition, consciousness, and perception of reality are emergent properties of Cultural Traditions, Genetic Heritage,...
There are big shifts going on in the energy and utilities sectors, with changes in the social licence to operate and the rapidly shifting economic model. There’s an awareness of climate change and...
While Social Distancing is used as a constraint to slow the flow of the novel coronavirus, the flow of (dis)information through our distributed social networks is susceptible to a new kind of...
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
Chances are you have never picked up and read his Aerial Attack Study—an Air Force official document that codified aerial maneuvers for pilots interested in dominating their opponents in air-to-air...
John Boyd’s Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop is often associated with fighter aviation where a human straps on a machine (fighter aircraft) and competes against another human-machine system in...
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Planning Sessions and Daily Scrums, TOPGUN Style
Back in 2014, when the July 2013 Scrum Guide was current and before the book, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time was published, a group of former TOPGUNs sat in an Atlanta-area...
If you consider Information as the critical currency that needs to flow unimpeded within any team, then psychological safety is the lifeblood that transports this vital teaming nutrient. In teams or...
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Constraint-Led Approach (CLA) and the OODA Loop
I was introduced to Constraint-Led Approach a few weeks ago during the Navy’s Complexity Workshop. At the workshop, I was shown the book, Constraint-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and...
PLANks: A hands-on and fun Team Development Intervention approach that targets the leadership and teaming skills behind organizational resilience, safety, and agility. We call it PLANks because...
Gouge: Lexicon borrowed from fighter aviation used to describe the essential lessons, tricks of the trade, skinny or poop, or inside scoop on what really matters. If you had one page to show the...