This time Chet guide us through how we should understand the German attributes Einheit, Behendigkeit (behändigkeit), Fingerspitzengefühl, Auftragstaktik and Schwerpunkt. Another key term that Chet mentions and that may contain all the attributes is 'Harmony.' In 2023, we wrote a paper to nuance the different aspects of Harmony (Einheit & Stimmigkeit), which you can find here.

(03:25) Chet starts

(25:50) VRHI - Variety, Rapidity, Harmony & Initiative

(31:50) EBFAS

(32:20) (E) Einheit – Ailen look down at earth – and a one organism that had fingerspitzen gefühl. Make it intuitive

(35:10) (B) Behendigkeit (Behändigkeit)

(40:50) (F) Fingerspitzengefühl – Chief Engineer

(46:00) (A) Auftragstaktik

(48:55) (S) Schwerpunkt – cloosely tied into einheit (Common Orientation)

(55:30) IOHAI - (Insight, Orientation, Harmony, Agility & Initiative)

(1:01:40) Maneuver

(1:03:35) Moral

(1:05:00) Slide 132 – The synthesis – operating inside the enemies OODA-loop.

Chet Richards was an associate of the late Col John Boyd from 1975–when Boyd asked him to look over the mathematics parts of “Destruction and Creation,” his first paper on strategy–until Boyd’s death in March 1997. In the intervening years, he was involved with Conceptual Spiral, The Essence of Winning and Losing, and the later editions of Patterns of Conflict and with all of Boyd’s investigations into the applications of his ideas for business. Source: https://slightlyeastofnew.com/