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Colonel of Marines
It was at the squad level that future battles would be decided. … Wyly surmised that the Marine Corps was not taking care of the squads. (p. 160) Just came in! Paperback from Amazon (only available...
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All Warfare is Based Upon …
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The Famous Samurai: Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1850) The best strategist is not the one who knows he must deceive the enemy but the one who knows how to do it. Polish author Stanislaw Lem...
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Conceptual Spiral in Boyd’s Own Words
In 1992, John Boyd released his last major presentation, Conceptual Spiral. Coming in at 38 slides and just shy of 3,000 words, it is roughly 10 times the size of his next and final presentation, The...
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Dr Ray Leopold* Of course, defense spending numbers are being manipulated: It’s in the DNA of those most intimately involved. That type of manipulation is well beyond the natural human concept which...
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If OODA was a Venn diagram
Codde, Pieter Jacobsz (b.1599-12-11 – d.1678-10-12), Intérieur de corps de garde (Titre principal), 1626. Huile sur bois. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. Clinton D. PopeChief...
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If OODA was a (revised) Venn diagram
Codde, Pieter Jacobsz (b.1599-12-11 – d.1678-10-12), Intérieur de corps de garde (Titre principal), 1626. Huile sur bois. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. Clinton D. PopeChief...
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Deconstructing The Essence of Winning and Losing
If all men by nature desire to know, then they desire most of all the greatest knowledge of science. Duns Scotus Download my new presentation, The Essence of Winning and Losing — Deconstructed. Or,...
View ArticleTom Barnett’s OODA Loop
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, who is probably best known for his 2004 best-seller, The Pentagon’s New Map, gave a presentation last November featuring an OODA Loop. Because it is not the traditional...
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Influence strategies
c. 1900. Library of Congress Digital Collection. Once again, social science can help us understand behavior and why, or why not, certain influence strategies may be effective. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas...
View ArticleOoops! I forgot about the video
There is a video of me giving The Lost Arts of Leadership at the 2022 Kanban Global Summit in San Diego: Kanban Global Summit 2022 There are a bunch of interesting videos on that page, so enjoy!
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