You could loosely define cadence as “What’s the expected cycle time through the OODA loop when moving at a speed which strikes you as ‘an appropriate level of urgency and focus.’”
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Organizations have sort of a set point for this. I think people often have a particular preferred one. I don’t think any preference for a cadence is right or wrong, but I do think that some are more instrumentally effective in some situations.
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There are certain rituals of cognition and rituals of decisionmaking in some organizations, though, which effectively do mandate a particular operating cadence. And that mandate is equivalent to mandating the corresponding instrumental effectiveness.
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I work with a lot of U.S. military vets, and “optempo” encompasses cadence + the amount of units of work we’ll have to burn to get something done. Fantastic term to grab and repurpose. https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42131 …
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One of the great lessons from a super smart CEO entrepreneur I worked for in my 20s was about cadences but it wasn’t until Microsoft that I got a term to use: Rhythm of Business. Every business should have a yearly/monthly (even weekly) cadence. It creates discipline.
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So true! Especially the set point
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