Strategic Orientation

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John Robb:

"John Boyd, America’s most significant strategic mind, maintained that orientation is the focal point of decision-making since it shapes how we observe, decide, and act (the four steps in Boyd’s OODA loop).

Orientation is a pattern of understanding informed and constrained by experience, training, culture, education, means, capabilities, desires, aspirations, etc. It is the step in decision-making that shapes sense, goal, and path-making to navigate a complex environment successfully.

With a solid orientation, every decision, regardless of its success, yields advancement through attentiveness, focus, hard work, and incremental improvements. Moreover, with each advance, new advances come faster and more easily.

In contrast, a broken orientation converts every decision into damage regardless of the effort's apparent success. The longer this failed orientation persists, the greater the loss in cohesion, coherence, etc."

(https://johnrobb.substack.com/p/what-went-wrong-with-america)