{"id":5895,"date":"2022-06-21T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2022-06-20T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:20:00","slug":"top-gun-maverick-and-the-ooda-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/top-gun-maverick-and-the-ooda-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gun: Maverick and the OODA Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Top Gun: Maverick holds a powerful lesson and insight. Here&#8217;s how it applies to Lean Six Sigma:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/722249114?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;My wife and I recently went and saw \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d Maverick&#8217;s now this old \u201ctest pilot\u201d kind of guy, but he&#8217;s called in to help train the best of the best for a special mission. These young hot shots think that he&#8217;s an old guy, right? He can&#8217;t possibly know anything. It&#8217;s kind of funny to watch: they get up and he&#8217;s trying to evaluate them and he says, \u201cLet&#8217;s get up and we&#8217;ll do combat,\u201d and they make a challenge. They say, \u201cHey, let&#8217;s make it really interesting: If you shoot us down we&#8217;ll do 200 push-ups; if [we] shoot [you] down [you&#8217;ll] do 200 push-ups. He says okay, and they&#8217;re like, \u201cYeah, I got this guy!\u201d Of course, Cruise\u2019s character Maverick cuts them all off, shoots them all down and they are doing push-ups daily\u2026 200 push-ups daily. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think my muscles would be in a situation where I couldn&#8217;t actually fly anymore.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That kind of thinking is based on a [person named] <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)\">John Boyd<\/a>, who was a fighter pilot back in the 50s. They called him &#8220;Forty-Second Boyd&#8221; because he would train people and he&#8217;d say, \u201cGet on my tail,\u201d and in 40 seconds he would defeat them. In forty seconds he would beat those people.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;He came up with what he called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OODA_loop\">OODA Loop<\/a>. OODA, which stands for \u201cObserve,\u201d see where you&#8217;re at; \u201cOrient,\u201d so you know where you&#8217;re going; \u201cDecide\u201d what you&#8217;re going to do; and \u201cAct.\u201d The faster you do the OODA loop, the faster you can get on somebody else&#8217;s tail and shoot them down. It was kind of his thing. Then the Marines actually adopted the OODA loop for a lot of the things that that they do on the ground.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The OODA loop has kind of taken on a little cachet, because that&#8217;s how we have to think. In Quality Improvement, I like to \u201cObserve,\u201d okay, where&#8217;s the biggest pain, where&#8217;s the biggest problem, where&#8217;s the biggest suffering, where&#8217;s the biggest loss of money, whatever it is; and then \u201cOrient,\u201d okay, so where&#8217;s the data for that; \u201cDecide\u201d what we&#8217;re going to do, do some data analysis; and then \u201cAct,\u201d do some root cause analysis, implement changes and see what happens. The faster we can do that, the faster we can get to better, faster, cheaper (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-Perfect-Now-Money-Manifesto-ebook\/dp\/B005VFN1KA\/ref=sr_1_1\">Free, Perfect and Now<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So I want you to consider the OODA Loop; you might even Google it: OODA Loop. That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s start improving things a lot faster than we have in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Gun: Maverick holds a powerful lesson and insight. Here&rsquo;s how it applies to Lean Six Sigma: &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;My wife and I recently went and saw &ldquo;Top Gun: Maverick.&rdquo; Maverick&rsquo;s now this old &ldquo;test pilot&rdquo; kind of guy, but he&rsquo;s called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,3,7],"tags":[166,118,463,170,462],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","category-lean","category-six-sigma","tag-lean","tag-lean-six-sigma","tag-ooda-loop","tag-six-sigma","tag-top-gun-maverick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}