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  ***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 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 technology being used everywhere and more emphasis being placed on a company’s ability to collect feedback and analyse competition, this method is now a common approach applied in organizations. In business, OODA loops typically examine what is happening externally and how results are performing ...

  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...

As our career progresses, we may find we do fewer technical tasks and spend more time guiding a team or planning strategy . While that's often a given today, in the 19th century most companies promoted the best technicians. But Henri Fayol recognized that the skills that made them good at their jobs did not necessarily make them good managers . Who Was Henri Fayol? Fayol's  14 Principles of Management  identified the skills that were needed to manage well. While inspiring much of today's management theory, they offer tips that we can still implement in our lives and organizations. Fayol also created a list of the five Primary   Functions of Management , which go hand in hand with the Principles. What Is Administrative Theory? Fayol called managerial skills "administrative functions." In his 1916 book, "Administration Industrielle et Générale," he shared his experiences of managing a workforce. Fayol’s book – and his 14 Principles of Management – ...

  We often wonder how successful companies continue to navigate and grow and know exactly what direction to go . The trick seems to be an almost irresponsibly aggressive approach to growing key objectives with a talented group of people.  OKR is an acronym for Objectives and Key Results —  a framework for visioning and setting goals within an organization that was popularized by Google. Today, OKR is used at a seemingly broad variety of companies, from larger established firms like Anheuser-Busch and Deloitte to younger tech companies like Eventbrite and Twitter. Therefore, what are OKRs and how do they work, and — most importantly — do they work. Many leaders ask how they can align their team to the vision and set goals within their team. What is OKR? OKR is a goal-setting methodology originally developed by Andy Grove, former CEO and Chairman of Intel. In his book,  High Output Management , he describes OKRs as being the answer to two questions: We can expand the d...

  ***Continued from Chapter 01 (Covered previously: What Is Big Picture Thinking, Importance Of Big Picture Thinking, Detail Oriented Or A Big Picture Thinker- The Difference) Link to Chapter 01 Identifying the Different Approaches - Approach Indicators No matter which field we belong to – an aspiring entrepreneur, someone who’s putting together a dream team, or polishing our leadership skills, big picture thinking can help open up, innovative and unexpected creative paths, ideas and solutions. Detail-Oriented Approach Indicators o    We prefer tweaking an existing plan than creating one from scratch o    We think over issues in such great detail that we sometimes miss the bigger picture o    We end up putting down or highlighting almost all notes o    We work towards high-quality work in most areas of our life and struggle with perfectionist tendencies o    We’re organized and/or like routine   ...