Mental Supermodels

10. The OODA Supermodel
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. So how can you execute on your plans in a dynamic, changing environment?
Jeremy Thomas and Myron Weber discuss how John Boyd's OODA Loop mental supermodel can be applied within the context of the 6 Stage Strategy to Execution model.
Willingness to adapt is critical to executing your plan.Agile decision making increases the speed of execution while decreasing, not increasing the chaos.Treating decisions and actions as the testing of hypotheses allows you to flex within the plan rather than throwing away the plan when the environment changes.