It’s time for breakfast. I’m having a bowl of OODA Loops, a true Breakfast of Champions. Want some?
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Chess and Go are two games that require a real time combination of strategic, tactical and analytical skills to master. They have military emphasis, with conquest as an objective, but are worlds apart in terms of what how success is …
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We were having a discussion one night about agility. It started with the language of sports or war to develop metaphors for illustrating business parallels. Agility became my pet for that chat and endless ranting to come. I concluded that …
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Travel mess-ups happen. If you’ve been on the road for some time, you accumulate enough stories to play one-up-on you with fellow road warriors. My wackiest experience was when I and a customer were in Suriname (Dutch Guyana) and had …
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It was the summer of 1969, a hot, balmy Miami midsummer night, and I was between high school graduation and my first quarter at college. For me, the summer of 69 represented a big transition from the euphoria and fun …
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Years ago, many years ago, I had the good fortune of learning how to approach performance improvement from several of the giants. It happened while I was part of a life-changing and game-changing journey at Florida Power and Light in …
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My first car was a beautiful 1956 Oldsmobile; I bought it in 1968, during the early half of my senior year in high school. It increased my degrees of freedom and mobility. No more having to catch rides with my …
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I was scared, whole body from toes to top of head scared. First, before I started, I was certain that I would fail miserably and lose all credibility and self respect. Then, when I did start, I was sure I was not going to make it and get really sick in front of them. I remember that day over 14 years ago as if it was yesterday. I also remember what a difference a person makes in your life and in the colors of the tapestry of your life.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. –Abraham Lincoln
Abe asked two very important questions we should answer when deciding what to do and how to do it:
Do you know where you are?
Do you know where you’re going?
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Your couch. It is mine.
Im a cool paragraph that lives inside of an even cooler modal. Wins
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