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Chapter 02 - Exploring the power of decision intelligence frameworks with the OODA Loop and SEAL. Discussion - how these methods can transform our approach to faster, smarter decision-making in any environment. ***Continued from Chapter 01 (Covered previously: Decision Intelligence and its meaning, The OODA Loop, How The OODA Loop Works: The Four Steps , Success Of The OODA Loop ) Link to Chapter - 01 https://conceptsnest.blogspot.com/2022/02/decision-intelligence-frameworks-ooda.html Uses Of The OODA Loop In general, military planning models are often applied to uses outside of their original context due to their effectiveness in extreme situations. The OODA loop has been adapted to become an important concept in various fields such as business, game theory, information security, law enforcement, litigation, marketing and strategy. Professionals find this compelling because of its common-sense approach to decision-making and its emphasis on staying competitive. With technolo...

  All of us, without exception, would love to tame the future and tilt odds in our favor all the time. This lofty aspiration and our incessant effort toward making right choices is what sets us apart from animal species. Decision making is a basic cognitive process of human behavior. Far from perfect, our prowess for decision making stands exposed more than ever in the hyper connected and rapidly changing world we live in. Decision Intelligence: How can it help? There is hardly any organization today that does not aspire to power their decisions and actions with intelligence. Enough evidence exists that those who can harness their organizational intelligence and align it to desired outcomes accrue a substantial advantage.  Over the decades of automation, significant strides have been made in codifying human experiential knowledge as well as extracting hidden knowledge from transactional data footprints. The purview of decision intelligence is to explore outcome-focused and h...

Conversation on how Henri Fayol’s management principles & Maslow’s hierarchy of needs create a complete leadership model that blends structure with human motivation. In most careers, there comes a point where technical tasks give way to leading people, setting strategy, and shaping vision . Today, that transition is expected — but in the 19th century, many companies simply promoted their best technicians. Henri Fayol challenged that norm, arguing that the qualities of a great worker did not automatically make a great manager . Who Was Henri Fayol? Henri Fayol was one of the first to formally define what effective management looks like. His 14 Principles of Management identified the skills needed to lead well — insights that still influence management theory today. Alongside these, he created Five Primary Functions of Management that provide a big-picture framework for running any organisation. What Is Administrative Theory? Fayol called managerial skills "administrative func...