OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide and Act)
1. Observe: What Are the Immediate Facts at Hand?
2. Orient: What Else Can You Infer from Those Facts?
3. Decide: What Course of Action Do Those Things Lead To?
4. Act: Immediately Get Them Done
Brits: Observe, Destroy and Apologize
Cheney Is a Big Fan of Boyd and OODA
Chet Richards on applying the principles of OODA and John Boyd to business
Conservatives Have Applied Psychology and Sociology Much Better than Liberals
Conservatives Used the OODA Loop Used Against Kerry Very Effectively
Crossing the river by feeling the stones
Five lessons about warfare from Ukraine (xlnt)
How Boyd finally got to the OODA loop
Innovation Parkour (first preso)
Neocons Are Inside the Democrats' OODA Loop
Patterns of Conflict (1976)
Super Sabre’s Bubble Canopy Gave Pilots Better Awareness, Which Led to More Kills
The Canonical Debate vs. Hybrid Warfare
The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions
The OODA-SCIM guide for managing pandemic flu (and other systemic risks.) PDF
The out-of-office (OOO) world
The Way of the Doofus Warrior
Tools for thought in your OODA loop
What you really do with OODA loops?
Favorite Models for Sensemaking amid Complexity
Lessons from the Military
5. Solve your solvable problems
10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea
40 Seconds Boyd, Amazing Challange Of A Fighter Pilot
A Discourse on Winning and Losing (2018)
A quick guide to the maxims of new media
A User Manual To Working With Me
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror (2010)
A-10 Warthog (1972 Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II)
ACT (Assess - Choose - Take Action)
Actions Speak Louder than Words
After Action Reviews (AARs)
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Analytic Frameworks for Military Strategy
ARIA Formula for Mindful Awareness
Astronomical Coordinate Systems
Audience (Polls) Response Systems (clickers & more) and Feedback
Careful Observation of Nature
Careful Patient Observation
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business (2004)
Circular Logic (Reasoning)
Cognitive bias cheat sheet (xlnt summary)
Command Push vs. Reconnaissance Pull
Conceptual Spiral Presentation by John Boyd 1
Cory’s Advice for Prolific Writing
Creating a Latticework of Mental Models: An Introduction
Crowdsourced Document Feedback
Cultivate Collective Intelligence
Cynefin (five domain framework)
Decision Analysis (1966 DA)
Delayed Auditory Feedback
Double-Loop Learning (changing the rules)
Effects-Based Operations (EBO)
Electoral (Voting) Systems
Elements that Helped the Boston Miracle
Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success (2012)
Energy-Maneuverability Theory of Fighter Design
F-16 Viper (1974 General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon)
F-18 (1978 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet)
Feedback Cards for Meetings
Feedback Control Mechanisms
Forces for Change: global mega-trends
Formula for Change (Gleicher's Formula)
Freddish (how to communicate with children)
Garbage Can Model (of decision making)
Gardner's Types of Intelligence
Genius of John Boyd & Co Aka Fighter Mafia
Global Monitoring and Feedback
Grant's Examples of Good Corporate Empaths
How Complex Systems Fail (1998 pdf)
How to Convince People, Even if Facts Backfire?
How to Find Fulfilling Work
How to Give People Advice They’ll Be Delighted to Take
How to Keep from Getting Run over by a Rhino
How to Win a Nobel Prize: Notes from Richard Hamming’s Talk on Doing Great Research
Humans Are Very Reluctant to Kill Other Humans
If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right (2011)
If not intelligence, what does lead to creative achievement? (list)
Innovation + Regulation =
Integrative Decision Making
John Boyd’s greatest lesson wasn’t the OODA Loop
Joseph Bell (inspiration for Holmes)
Keep Your Options Open (as long as possible)
Keeping a Skeptical Eye on Organizations
Key Attributes of the Blitzkrieg
Landscape or Portrait Orientation?
Lewis Model of Cross-Cultural Communication
Liberating Structures Menu
Likely Features of Emerging Dignitarian Institutions
Mechanism of Action (MoA)
Models and Theories of Individual and Social Dynamics
Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)
Naturalistic Decision-Making (1989 NDM)
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
Nothing About Us Without Us (Nihil de nobis, sine nobis)
Observation Changes Behavior
Observation Changes What You Observe
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (1996)
OPA (Outcome - Purpose - Action)
Page Orientation (also for photos and videos)
People, ideas, machines – in that order!
PERMA (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Achievement)
Polybius' Sequence of Anacyclosis
Principles of Bohm Dialogue
Principles of Messy Management
Public Feedback Regulation
Rapoport’s Rules to Criticize Someone Constructively
Ray Dalio's Principles (2011)
Recognition Primed Decision (RPD) Model
Reed's Actions to Save Civilization (2016)
Reflective Observation (RO)
Requirements Based Collection
Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMAs)
Rules for Surviving in an Autocracy and Salvaging Your Sanity and Self-respect
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (2005)
Simple Strategies to Minimize Purpose Anxiety
Software Development Issues
Some Suggestions on the Nature of Dialogue
SPADE (Setting, People, Alternatives, Decide and Explain)
Spyglasses (to spy on the enemy)
Steps to Script Your Own Life
The Art and Science of Spending Money (xlnt)
The Art of Observation: The Two Types of Observations
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1637 Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia)
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976 essay)
No more concurrent uploads are allowed - wait until at least one has finished.
OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide and Act)
The OODA loop was developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd. He applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the operational level during military campaigns. It is often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The approach explains how agility can overcome raw power in dealing with human opponents. It is especially applicable to cyber security and cyberwarfare.
