We are implementing Bullhorn starting this week and my morning will be consumed mostly by training.
If you are at all interested in strategy, then you must keep www.Belisarius.com on your short list. The subtitle "War, Chaos and Business" does a good job of setting the stage; at the end of the day, strategy is about successfully navigating through chaos. It is not updated frequently (every few months) but it is one of my favorite websites.
The content of the site revolves around a concept developed by USAF Col. John Boyd called "OODA", which stands for "Observe, Orient, Decide, Act" in his presentation called "Patterns of Conflict". You can see a moderately complex diagram here and read a fairly interesting article about him and the OODA loop at fastcompany.com and Robert Greene posted last year on the OODA loop specifically.
The nutshell version is that when we are in any kind of conflict from a chess game to a tennis match, basketball game, marketing campaign or an actual military engagement, we are all, both as individuals and as a group, constantly running this OODA process. The faster we can complete the loop, the faster we can respond properly to a chaotic, emergent situation. The goal is to shorten our own loops through training, awareness, trust based leadership and personal competence while lengthening our opponents loops through confusion, uncertainty, fear, surprise, lack of communication, etc.
We could probably use a good practical example here but it will have to wait. Dig into the whitepapers and books at Belisarius and I will revisit this topic in the near future.
