How to Use the OODA Loop for Your Startup

Ivy Mahsciao
4 min readJul 17, 2018

Because staying resilient and dangerously adaptive throughout life is a determinant of social and life success — in and outside of your startup

PART 1 of 3

A quick background on OODA: It was developed by military strategist and the United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd who had applied the concept to combat operations so its roots are in military methodology. Its uses are often applied to commercial operations and other learning processes. It’s an approach that favors agility over raw power in any human endeavor.

This is part 1 of a 3-part series: The end goal is to expand beyond normal terms that we’re used to seeing and using, but less practiced in the startup world, and subsequently habituate a scalable startup existence by using a system that’s highly adaptive and gets more potent the more it’s practiced.

Speech is an indispensable ingredient in the process of inquiry. Because a thought always stems from language to some extent as we form any cognition of reality. And the only way to communicate a thought is through a common convention of established language (as opposed to interpretive…

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Ivy Mahsciao

Champion for human potential • Lover of phenomenology and virtues. I design and develop systems that help people flourish in their own mastery.