In managing themselves and their institutions to improve performance -- to execute, not just to decide -- executives depend on learning. We aren't good at most things until we've done them for a while ...

The Air Force’s military superiority is centered around the service and individual airmen’s ability to ingest new information and act quickly and decisively. But the unending waves of data being ...

“Strategy is a mental tapestry of changing intentions for harmonizing and focusing our efforts as a bias for realizing some aim or purpose in an unfolding and often unforeseen world of many ...

Years ago Colonel John Boyd, God's gift to military thought by some measures, came up with the "OODA Loop." "OODA" is an acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act and it's the basis for Boyd's ...

In the sphere of military science and doctrine, Col. John Boyd is a brute and fabled character. Boyd was an Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War who later went on to become revered as a blunt ...

The application of analytics to large data sets, sometimes referred to as “big data,” is still an emerging capability in the military. As a result, defense agencies and their industry partners have ...

Courtesy of Freddy Osuna of Greenside Training LLC; author of Tracking With Optics and the book Index Tracking: the Essential Guide to Trailing Man and Beast. The 3rd Pillar of Index Tracking: The ...

A fighter pilot flying a 13-ton F-16 in combat must make rapid decisions in a fast-changing environment. The decisions faced by management accountants may typically be a little less stressful, but ...

The figure below explains the OODA loop in more detail. Based on the data collected from the surroundings through 'observation', the five aspects of cultural tradition, analysis and integration, past ...

An Indian Air Force commando stands in front of a Soviet-era Pechora air defense system on Sept. 27, 2019. (Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images) Following the recent India-China standoff in the eastern ...