Feral Jundi

For those of you out there that are interested in the content of this two plus hour hearing, it is very good. It is pure Boyd in all of his fire breathing glory. The two things that jumped out at me were his thoughts on how to recognize talent, and what is talent within the military. That people come first in the priorities of establishing a winning strategy for war fighting. Then the ideas and hardware come second and third. Boyd even suggested going around the typical processes of officer selection, and finding out the true value of an individual through other means. I take that as another way of saying 'use mystery shoppers' to find the true talent within your organization, and once you have found that talent, to hang on to them as if they were made of gold--because they are made of gold. 1. People 2. Ideas 3. Hardware/technology That is what the priority should be for companies and the military, and in that order. Gadgets (hardware/technology) do not win wars or win contracts, people do.