The OODA Loop Explained: The Real Story About the Ultimate Model for Decision-Making in Competitive Environments
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The OODA Loop Explained: The Real Story About the Ultimate Model for Decision-Making in Competitive Environments
The best way I’ve found to cope with this cycle is through the work of the exceptional John Boyd. In order to understand the process of air combat, John Boyd developed the OODA loop. This is a cycle of observe the environment, orient around it, decide and then act. In figure 7 below, I’ve married together both Sun Tzu and John Boyd to create a stra... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
John Boyd’s OODA loop playing out at the table instead of in the air. Boyd was a fighter pilot in the air force, and he invented OODA to describe a dynamic that he’d learned through his years in combat: to succeed, you need to constantly observe, orient, decide, and act. OODA. The way to outmaneuver your opponent is to get inside their OODA loop.
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
The idea of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop owes a lot to ideas from maneuver warfare, especially John Boyd’s OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) Loop. The most accessible introduction to Boyd’s ideas is Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business by Chet Richards. http://ericri.es/CertainToWin
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
introduced by the legendary air force pilot and military strategist John Boyd: observe, orient, decide, and act.