The more you rise in the hierarchy, the less tribe you

have to bounce your ideas with.

Tribe for me
What am proposing works with a leadership who has
achieved the material goal and now wants to make
some difference to the world
Want to be inside system n change
 Machine learning
Goal to reach
Limited to work/career/professional stuff. This is NOT
meant for life coaching and
personal/family/relationships stuff
Do You Feel Lonely As A Leader? Study Says You're Not
Alone.

Sounding board
The best leaders have confidantes who can give it to
them straight, speak truth to power, and keep them in
the know.
Sparring Partner
Hegelian Dialectic

T T T

S P S P

A A A

T Thesis
A Anti thesis
S Synthesis
P Paradox
Boydian dialetic - OODA Loop
 Is it an approach to decision-making?
An approach to creative ideation?
An approach to conflict?
A philosophy of innovation?
Applied thermodynamics?
Acreativeproblem-solving model?
A metaphysics of creative destructiona laSchumpeter in economics?
Adescription of how the world works?
Anormative framework for how you ought to act?
A system of virtue ethics?
A cult of personality around a charismatic figure?
A playbook for being an effective CEO or general?
A big brother to Lean or Agile thinking?
An approach to entrepreneurship?
A model of guerrilla warfare? A US Marine Corps religion?
 for a very high-leverage foundation for the relationship.
OODA Loop
 The main role of orientation, is to predict the
consequences of our actions more accurately thanour
opponents can predict the consequences of theirs.
Carl Von Clausewitz
Key Attributes of the Blitzkrieg
Einheit: Mutual trust, unity, and cohesion
Fingerspitzengefhl: Intuitive feel, especially for
complex and potentially chaotic situations
Auftragstaktik: Mission, generally considered as a
contract between superior and subordinate
Schwerpunkt: Any concept that provides focus and
direction to the operation
Sun Tzu 5 factors that matter in competition between two

opponents.

Purposeis your moral imperative, it is the scope of what you are doing and why
you are doing it. It is the reason why others follow you.

Landscapeis the environment that you compete in. It describes the position of
troops, the features of the landscape including any obstacles in your way.

Climate - describes the forces that act upon the environment. It is the patterns of
the seasons and the rules of the game.

Doctrineis the training of your forces, the standard ways of operating and the
techniques that you almost always apply.

Leadershipis about the strategy that you choose considering your purpose, the
landscape, the climate and your capabilities. It is to "the battle at hand". It is
context specific.
 Ideas are the raw material to knowledge but they should go through
an authentication. Ideas thus can be classified in relationship to the
authentication process.
1. Facts: ideas which have already passed authentication processes
2. Falsehoods: ideas known to have failed-or certain to fail-such
processes
3. Theories: ideas systematically prepared for authentication
4. Myths: ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication
process 5. Vision: ideas not derived from any systematic process
6. Illusion: ideas which could not survive any reasonable
authentication process
 In economic terms, capital is a piece of equipment that
is built and used not for its own sake, but for building or
making something else that is wanted.
 When I went home and watched the video, I studied
each of these moments frame by frame to see what
happened. Sometimes I would see myself triggering into
a throw just as Dans blink began; maybe my footwork
would fall into rhythm with his in a manner that opened
up a tiny gap of momentum to ride, or I might catch him
at the beginning of an exhalation.
There were many moments like this, each of which I
studied until I understood. We would then convert what
had been creative inspiration into something we
understood technically. (p.230)
 Definition ofSPARRING PARTNER
1: someone who helps a boxer practice: someone a
boxer spars with for training
2: a person that someone has serious but friendly
arguments with<They have been politicalsparring
partnersfor years.>
http://www.wcbcboxing.com/images/LIFE9.gif
 I dont view myself as an interviewer. I view myself as
an experimenter. If I cant test something and replicate
results in the messy reality of everyday life, Im not
interested.

Orientation -
Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the
right field-tested beliefs and habits.
Someone else has done your version of success before, and
often, many have done something similar.
 Limited to work/career/professional stuff. This is NOT
meant for lifecoaching and personal/family/relationships
stuff.
Must have at least a vaguely defined intention to take
on a "Great Work" project in 2017
You must actually commit to doing the pre-read/pre-
work (won't be more than an hour)
 Rememberinattentional blindness , we scan a very limited dataset
and match it against past direct and vicarious experience,
privileging the most recent memories; we satisfise rather than
optimise. Well it applies as much to individual decision making at a
consumer level as much as to expert decision making. We need to
go deeper, to create a degree of cognitive load if we are to get to
underlying needs. As it happens this is reasonably well known. Let
me quote A.G. Lafley, the CEO of Procter and Gamble writing in
Business Week back in January 2005.