Business is a classic game.
It doesn’t need a huge amount of effort to build a business, but you need to unlock or unleash the power that already exists.
One of the core skills is to be able to solve the most important problems. To know what’s most important bottleneck of the business.
How to unlock problems? This is what fighter pilots do.
When you’re faced with a problem, clearly define it and decide whether it is something you can affect.
“The ability to operate at a faster tempo or rhythm than an adversary enables one to fold the adversary back inside himself so that he can neither appreciate nor keep up with what is going on. He will become disoriented and confused.” —John Boyd
The OODA loop is an interesting decision making tool from fighter pilots.
A few observations:
- If you want to solve a problem, spend most of your time defining the problem. Then the solution is usually obvious.
- The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing. Do the main thing, don’t try to do everything at once.
The Five Whys Problem Solving Technique
- “by repeating why five times, the nature of the problem as well as its solution becomes clear.
