Never heard of a Decision Forcing Case before. I have a vision of a facilitator saying 'what would you do?' in rapid quick-fire succession and the answer 'I don't know' simply not cutting it. It feels like a methodology that would really help emergency planners
I'm a Boyd junkie and dedicated reader of the Tactical Notebook, despite 30+ civilian years in an international professional field, highly VUCA but weirdly bereft of, even resistant to, strategic thinking & applied learning (drives me nuts).
Connecting these two here remotivates me to put my shoulder to the wheel at least for my own edification thru Gudmundsson's Decision-Forcing Cases. Thanks!
Enjoyed the article, I totally agree about applying Boyd in the civilian world and have in all my day jobs. And it must have been fantastic to meet him in person, that would be good article.
It would indeed be epic if Bruce would write an article about his interaction with Boyd and his impressions of Boyd’s ideas on strategy, operations and tactics.
Are you familiar with ShadowBox - a company created by Gary Klein and John Schmidt. They utilize decision games/scenarios to train in the spirit of Naturalistic Decision Making. https://www.shadowboxtraining.com/our-team/
Never heard of a Decision Forcing Case before. I have a vision of a facilitator saying 'what would you do?' in rapid quick-fire succession and the answer 'I don't know' simply not cutting it. It feels like a methodology that would really help emergency planners
It would certainly help emergency planners. Facilitation is key, and immersing the participants in the scenario is crucial.
I'm a Boyd junkie and dedicated reader of the Tactical Notebook, despite 30+ civilian years in an international professional field, highly VUCA but weirdly bereft of, even resistant to, strategic thinking & applied learning (drives me nuts).
Connecting these two here remotivates me to put my shoulder to the wheel at least for my own edification thru Gudmundsson's Decision-Forcing Cases. Thanks!
Enjoyed the article, I totally agree about applying Boyd in the civilian world and have in all my day jobs. And it must have been fantastic to meet him in person, that would be good article.
It would indeed be epic if Bruce would write an article about his interaction with Boyd and his impressions of Boyd’s ideas on strategy, operations and tactics.
Bruce, what do you think?
Would it look something like this?
https://tacticalnotebook.substack.com/p/lunch-with-john-boyd?
Bruce: I will report to the quarterdeck for incentive PT! I totally forgot about that article! 😂
Are you familiar with ShadowBox - a company created by Gary Klein and John Schmidt. They utilize decision games/scenarios to train in the spirit of Naturalistic Decision Making. https://www.shadowboxtraining.com/our-team/
Indeed I am! I attended the conference that they ran in October of 2022. I've also worked with both of them.