THE ADOO LOOP: HOW DECISIONS ARE MADE
THE ADOO LOOP: HOW DECISIONS ARE MADE No, “ADOO” is not something out of a fifties song: it is in fact the reverse of an acronym well known in certain circles, especially Military circles. It is in fact “ Observation – Orientation – Decision – Action”, and “Loop” stands to mean that this is an iterative process, meant not only to force on its adherents a precise attention on reality as it flows instead of how we want it to be, but to be very reactive to events, even and above all of one's own making. The concept that there are domains in which today that is working in reverse is something I stumbled upon on Twitter , I am simply running with it. Mistakes and opinions are my own etc. but credit must go where it is due. So what's OODA Loop? It was a military concept of command and control, too intricate in spite of its apparent simplicity to be explained at length here, but that in a nutshell postulated that pushing decision as low in the ranks as possible allowed a quic