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The Debrief w/ Jocko and Dave Berke #6: Iterative Decision Making. Making Small Moves, Rather Than Big Moves

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jocko and Good Deal Dave Analyze some issues and look for solutions.

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0:00.0

This is the Jaco debrief podcast episode six with Dave Burke and me, Jaco Willink.

0:08.0

So Dave, we got some more debriefing to do.

0:11.0

We didn't get through my Gettysburg debriefs that I had for you.

0:17.0

So if you haven't listened to the logic, go back to episode five.

0:21.0

But moving into some of the other things that I had on my list that I texted to you

0:27.0

and said I got some debrief points for you.

0:30.0

So the next one that I wanted to cover is, again, this is something that's in leadership strategy and tactics.

0:37.0

And I believe it's fairly well spelled out.

0:40.0

And I've been briefing this a lot lately in the current environment that we're in.

0:44.0

It's 2020 right now.

0:46.0

There's a virus that currently seems like a, it's a world, a world impacting virus.

0:55.0

And so we've all been dealing with it and I've been helping people make decisions and maneuver their companies.

1:02.0

And one of the things that I've been talking a lot about is iterative decision making, which is a good way to lead in unknown circumstances.

1:10.0

And what you do is you basically make a small decision and then you take a small step in that direction.

1:16.0

And what I realized during this Gettysburg, during this Gettysburg battlefield walk that we did discussing the various leadership groups,

1:24.0

including the various leadership decisions that were made, was there was certain situations where leaders on the battlefield could have made small moves instead of big ones.

1:38.0

And in no case did they do that?

1:42.0

I mean, I'm sure I'll find some eventually, but in the major movements that were made, especially the major mistakes that were made,

1:50.0

there's no time where someone made a small decision and made a small step in that direction.

1:55.0

So what I was saying, and again, I'm there with almost the entire, well, the bunch of people from Ashlandfront, it's me, it's Lafe, it's Mike Sirelli, it's, who else was there?

2:05.0

Oh, Steve Ward, Jason Carter and Jamie.

2:08.0

So like we've got this big crew there.

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