Jordan Fletcher, Jay McGuire, Gino Morrow
Abstract:
“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy’s.” – Napoleon Bonaparte”
The term “strategy” entered the English language in 1810, when Napoleon was at the height of his success. The ability to derive strategic insight – where the mind is clear and quickly builds the picture of how things need to come together – has also been called “Napoleon’s Glance.” This term, originally coined by Carl Von Clausewitz, referenced how Napoleon was able to draw from memory a tactic previously used by Joan of Arc, and immediately leverage it for an upcoming battle [1]. Strategic insight is different than the concepts of expert intuition espoused by Gladwell [2] or the OODA loop developed by Boyd, because it is more focused on the human elements of decision making. Strategic insight requires data, sensing, training, and practice just like those other concepts but also requires human reflection and cognitive thinking to make the correct strategic and tactical decision
