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Gary Klein, PhD is an internationally renowned expert in decision-making, creativity, and leadership. He is a research psychologist, most famous for pioneering the field of Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM), along with his groundbreaking recognition primed decision (RPD) model, which has been used to revolutionize the way the Marines and Army train their officers. Dr. Klein has written several books, articles, and chapters about these topics, such as Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work, and his most recent book, Snapshots of the Mind. He is the founder and CEO of Klein Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in decision-making, creative problem solving, and leadership development. Dr. Klein is a much sought-after keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, and has also developed the widely-used Learning-Focused Leadership model. His work has been honored with awards from the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Society for Performance Improvement.

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Snapshots of the Mind
Linking Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making
Red Team Handbook

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Chet Richards is a retired Air Force Colonel, an independent consultant, and an author. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he also earned a PhD in mathematics. He served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force and as a strategy consultant and Lean theoretician.  Chet is a certified yoga instructor and holds a  Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500) certification with the Yoga Alliance. 

Colonel Richards is a colleague of the late American strategist John R. Boyd and is a gadfly-at-large for Boyd's ideas today. He has researched into the foundations of Boyd's strategy and has written "Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd Applied to Business" and "If We Can Keep It" (on national security policy). He has a blog at slightlyeastofnew.com, which also has latest edits of Boyd's papers and presentations.

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Twitter: @FuentesDeOnoro
Certain to Win
Antifragile
Being You 

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Chris Butler is a renowned product manager, writer, and speaker, with over 20 years of expertise in Agile methodologies, product management, and complex problem-solving. He has been a product leader at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Cognizant, KAYAK, and Waze and has created techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine, Animistic Design Mapping, and Confusion Mapping to create cross-team alignment while building AI products. He is currently a Lead Product Manager at Google's Core Machine Learning team. Chris is an avid speaker and writer and regularly shares his knowledge and insights through talks, articles, and workshops.

Chapters found in this episode:

• Product Managers as Decision Facilitators 
• Why Alignment is Costly 
• Product Strategy, Org Charts and Agile 
• Product Playbooks? 
• A Discourse on Product Management 
• The Power of Narrative 
• Provo-typing? 
• The BS or Term Paper Economy 

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Product School 

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Adrian Bejan, PhD, is an American professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University, esteemed member of the European Academy, and recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the U.S. version of the Nobel Prize. Born in Romania and a former member of the Romanian National Basketball team, Adrian is known for developing the Constructal Law, which states that any flow system—from the flight of birds to the movement of air and water—will evolve over time so that it can more easily flow. He has published more than 30 books and 650 papers and was ranked in the top 0.01 % of the most cited and impactful scientists in the world ( top 10 in the world in engineering) in the citation impact database created by John Ioannidis of Stanford University. Adrian has also received numerous awards, including the Max Jacob Prize in 1999 and the Ruikov Medal in 2006, and has been awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries. On this episode of No Way Out, Adrian will be discussing how the Constructal Law applies to basketball, the concept of systems and how they are defined, the evolution of design, and the concept of freedom and how it relates to flow.

Chapters  in this episode: 

• Basketball is Not Communism 
• An Observer-Defined System
• Thoughts on Entropy 
• Freedom: Removing Obstacles That Impede Flow 
• Arrogance, Fascism, and the Intellectual Elites 
• The Constructal Law: Origins
• The Physics of Perception 
• Why Time Moves Faster as We Age 
• The Physics and Geometry of Beauty

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Time and Beauty
The Physics of Life
Design in Nature
Adrian Bejan, PhD, Duke University 
Adrian Bejan, PhD Wikipedia Page
12th Constructal Law Conference, September 2023

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Fred Leland is a retired Lieutenant with the Walpole,  MA Police Department and a former United States Marine. He is an accomplished and accredited trainer with more than 30 years’ experience teaching Law Enforcement and Security. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, where he specialized in terrorism related topics, leadership and management.

Fred is a student of the late modern day Strategist COL John Boyd and the Ancient Strategist Sun Tzu. He founded Law Enforcement and Security Consulting, Inc (LESC) in 2006 with the focus of bringing these principles to law enforcement and security.

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Adaptive Leadership Handbook - Law Enforcement & Security
Being You
Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture
Chet Richards on LinkedIn
Don Vandergriff on LinkedIn

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Jim Rutt is a renowned innovator and creative mischief maker. He is known for his work as the first CTO of Thomson-Reuters, and for having served as the former CEO of Network Solutions. Following his successful sale of Network Solutions during the Dot Com Boom, Jim changed his focus to scientific research and has been affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute since 2002—a world-renowned think tank dedicated to research in the fields of complexity science, evolutionary and adaptive systems, and artificial intelligence. Jim is also the host of the popular The Jim Rutt Show podcast, where he interviews leading scientists, thinkers, and innovators to explore cutting edge ideas in science and technology, with a particular focus on the future of the economy, politics, and society.

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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence 

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Retired U.S. Navy Captain  J.J. "Yank" Cummings is a decorated naval aviator, fighter pilot and former captain of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier. With a M.S. in Education from Old Dominion University, a M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College and a Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program and TOPGUN graduate, J.J. has extensive experience in leading and managing thousands of men and women. He was a key influencer on Paramount Pictures' recent blockbuster and six-time Oscar-nominated movie, Top Gun: Maverick.

Selected chapters found in this episode:

• Leading in Conditions of Uncertainty
• Principles: Setting the Tone
• Building Exceptional Teams
• Actions, Not Words: Show Them You Care
• Nuclear Navy. Regular Navy. Fighter Aviation.
• Value (Kill) Chain Thinking: The Why Behind the What
• 1MC Thinking: Communicating the Mission, Reducing Uncertainty
• You Are Never Mission-less
• Go to the Gemba…Unannounced
• Building Credibility is Hard
• LBWA Over LBBOO
• Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief (PBED): Focus on the “D”
• The Recall Matters (What Happened)
• At a Profit, If We Can; At a Loss, If We Must…
• Systems Drive Behaviors
• Top Gun: Maverick Started on “Yank’s” Couch
• Leadership Lessons from the Making of Top Gun: Maverick
• Team Building Outside of Work
• Blue Water Advisors
• How to Connect with “Yank”   

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"Navy pilot and Bates graduate helps take film franchise to new heights"
Bob Hoover: An Aviation Legend

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Alistair Cockburn, PhD organized the historic meeting in Snowbird, Utah, in which he and 16 other people from around the world wrote the Agile Manifesto. His two industry-changing books, Writing Effective Use Cases and Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In addition to being a world-renowned expert on Agile, he is an authority in the field of software development, product management, project management and organizational development, and has authored four words of wisdom to help “rewild” Agile: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, Improve - known as the Heart of Agile.

Chapters found in this episode:

• What’s Behind Alistair’s Agile Orientation
• Consulting as Micro-Touch Therapy
• Agile 2003: What Should Have Been
• Agile and OODA Intent
• Keep It Simple
• Shu Ha Ri
• Demo-Do-Teach: A Western Version of Shu Ha Ri
• Mann Gulch: Implicit Guidance and Control
• Coaching Agile 
• Mr. Miyagi: The Ultimate Kokoro Teacher 
• The Importance of Play and Experiential Leaning 
• Reward Systems Drive Behaviors
• Collaboration
• Thoughts on the OODA loop

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Alistair Cockburn, PhD Bio
Alistair Cockburn, PhD Linkedin
Heart of Agile
Manifesto for Agile Software Development

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Inês Hipólito, PhD is a researcher in the interdisciplinary fields of philosophy of mind and complexity. Her research focuses on exploring the complex and reciprocal interactions between psychological behavior and the nervous system, body, and environment. She is a lecturer at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Inês is an Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Talent Grant Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, where she is studying the emergence of artificial intelligence as Augmented Cognition.

Selected chapters found in this episode:

• From Turing Machines to Active Inference
• Boundaries are set by the Observer
• Perception: How We Sense the World
• Predictive Coding - Brains are Not Passive Processors
• Why Orientation is the Schwerpunkt According to Neuroscience
• Cristiano Ronaldo and Skillful Performance
• Flow: Emptiness of the Mind or Mushin is Key
• Flow: Being Attuned with the External Environment
• Adaptation: Niche Construction and The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
• Minimize Surprise: The Ultimate Goal 
• Counterfactuals, COAs, and The Free Energy Principle
• Stuck State: Unhealthy Patterns of Thinking
• Psychedelics, Destruction and Creation, Ego
• Organizational Change, Destruction and Creation, Ego
• The Problem with Closed Systems

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Inês Hipólito, PhD
Twitter: @ineshipolito
REBUS
Entropic Brain Hypothesis
The Free Energy Principle
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior 

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Maj Gen Brook J. “Tank” Leonard, USAF is an experienced leader in the U.S. Air Force. He has extensive leadership experience with a wide range of organizations of various scales; in several complex and uncertain environments, including combat. He is currently the Deputy Commander and Director of Operations at Combined Joint Task Force - Space Operations, leading planning and operations for United States Space Command. He has flown numerous aircraft, including the F-16 and F-35, with over 3,000 flight hours, including 576 combat hours. Maj Gen Leonard is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, USAF Weapons School and has attained multiple masters degrees throughout his career.

Chapters in this episode include:

• Iron Eagle vs. Top Gun
• Why Fighter Aviation
• Energy-Maneuverability (Agility) Theory
• Navy TOPGUNs Take Boyd to School
• Distributed Leadership, Weapons School (Top Gun)  Style
• The Art and Science of the Debrief (Feedback Loop)
• Leadership Lessons from Secretary Mattis 
• Bounded Applicability: Effects-Based Operations (Value-Focused Thinking)
• New Domain, New Culture and the Power of Cognitive Diversity
• IOHAI: The Secret Behind Team Orientation
• Red Teaming: Challenging Assumptions and Improving Decision Facilitation 
• Leading a Fearless Organization (Psychological Safety) 
• F-16 vs. F-35? 
• Merging Cultures
• The Space Imperative 

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Maj Gen Brook J. Leonard Bio
Maj Gen Brook J. Leonard LinkedIn
U.S. Space Command
Debrief To Win
TOPGUN: An American Story

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