Blogchain: Org → Goal → Capabilities → Trust → Contracts

How to Build an Organization. Your job as an org leader is to deliver results. The best way to do so in our chaotic and ever-changing world is to build org that moves fast — one that rapidly observes unfolding situations, orients, decides, and acts (OODA). The following framework, developed by John Boyd and Chet Richards, will help you do just that.

Begin by assessing your org's:

1. Goals: A management tool for harmonizing the actions of large groups while also encouraging initiative and rapid decision making. (Schwerpunkt)
2. Capabilities: The competence of individuals in your organization. Highly capable organizations are filled with people who have intuitive skill or knowledge that provides uncanny insight into confusing situations. (Fingerspitzengefuhl)
3. Trust: Teams that trust each other are way more effective than ones that have to do everything with contracts, negotiation, and politics. (Einheit)
4. Contracts: Instead of assigning tasks, agree to contracts. After you've agreed, your report has total freedom within the constraints of the contract on how to proceed. This mutually agreed understanding fosters responsibility and reinforces mutual trust. (Auftrag)

Make improvements where there are deficiencies. Then cultivate an organizational climate that enables your organization to execute faster (OODA) decision loops. Promote people who strengthen the climate and remove those who do not.

A Visual Representation

The individual rectangles represent individual competence. Together they represent the capabilities of your org.

Trust makes it easier for groups to come together and work toward a shared purpose. It raises the competence of your entire organization.

A goal provides focus and direction for your organization.

Contracts are fuel, providing energy to encourage group member to accomplish the common goal.

via Chet Richard, Certain to Win