Transcript Mindsets and Character A Boyd Refresher Chet Richards Boyd 2008 December 6, 2008 Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Mindsets and Character
A Boyd Refresher
Chet Richards
Boyd 2008
December 6, 2008
Prince Edward Island, Canada
The OODA “Loop” Sketch
Observe
Unfolding
Circumstances
Implicit
Guidance
& Control
Feed
Observations Forward
Orient
Genetic
Heritage
Unfolding
Interaction
With
Environment
Act
Implicit
Guidance
& Control
Cultural
Traditions
New
Information
Outside
Information
Decide
Analyses &
Synthesis
Previous
Experience
Feedback
Feed
Forward
Decision
(Hypothesis)
Feed
Forward
Action
(Test)
Unfolding
Interaction
With
Environment
Feedback
Note how orientation shapes observation, shapes decision, shapes action, and in turn is shaped by the
feedback and other phenomena coming into our sensing or observing window.
Also note how the entire “loop” (not just orientation) is an ongoing many-sided implicit cross-referencing
process of projection, empathy, correlation, and rejection.
Orientation is key, but what about
groups?
 Using the tools of common outlook,
Schwerpunkt, and Auftragstaktik, we can
convert a bunch of individual orientations
Common orientation
 Into a harmonized common orientation
Group Orientation
Cultural
Traditions
Cultural
Traditions
Genetic
Heritage
Genetic
Heritage
Analyses/
Synthesis
New
Information
Analyses/
Synthesis
as if
New
Information
Previous
Experiences
Previous
Experiences
This allows us to redefine “command and
control”
“ … decrease the amount of
command and control we need.”
USMC MCDP 6
Doctrine
Experience
Mission
Values
Put another way
Quickly
understand
what’s going on
Observe
Shared values;
common
experiences;
commander’s
intent, etc.
Know what to do
Decide
Orient
Implicit
Guidance
& Control
Unfolding
Circumstances
Observations
And be able to
do it
Act
Implicit
Guidance
& Control
Feed
Forward
Feed
Forward
Decision
(Hypothesis)
Feed
Forward
Action
(Test)
Key Points:
Outside
Unfolding
Interaction
With
Environment
Information
• When
you’re doing OODA “loops” right,
Unfolding
accuracy and
speed improve together;
they don’t
Feedback
Interaction
trade off. With
Environment
Feedback
• The main function of leadership is to build an
organization that gets better and better at these
things.
While learning
from the
experience