Establish intent

• Intent expresses a broad vision of what to accomplish and how to do it
• Intent is brief, unambiguous, and compelling
• Use intent to facilitate other’s planning for themselves
• Use intent to establish a shared ethos and implicit communication

Reduce transition times

• Establish and drill standard work
• Establish deadlines and keep them tight
• Make swift decisions
• Instill a sense of urgency
• Act with the resources and information immediately available
• Implement procedures with an emphasis on flexibility, speed, and adaptability
• Develop planning that includes anticipated scenarios and actions to take if certain events occur
• Train for speed under scenarios of disorder, uncertainty, and time limits
• Act using the 80/20 rule
• Think in terms of flow rather than steps
• Improve the speed and capabilities of logistics
• Increase speed and accessibility of communications
• Position decision making authority at the point of friction
• Use images and graphics rather than raw data
• Hold resources in reserve to quickly overcome obstacles
• Use more integration
• Use more iteration

Choose battles

• Avoid points of friction that do not advance priorities
• Avoid trying to win by attrition
• Avoid fighting nature or other high inertia systems
• Avoid fire drills
• Don’t wait for information if it won’t change your decision
• Define problems and objectives that are achievable
• Use force to clear obstacles to more peaceful solutions
• Minimize actions that put survival at risk
• Plan for recovery time
• Exploit opportunities aggressively
• Use offensive actions, even in the defense, to achieve decisive results
• Concentrate resources to overwhelm the opposition
• Take actions that are event-based rather than schedule-based
• Match detection and response times to the frequency of the environment
• Use a high iteration flow for efforts with limited risk and the potential for exponential growth
• When uncertain act to reduce vulnerabilities and prevent worsening of the situation
• Consider what should be avoided and see what options are left
• Choose actions that teach valuable skills even if they were to fail
• Under scarcity, bias to instant gratification
• Under abundance, bias to delayed gratification
• When you have an edge, bias to action and reduce diversification
• Use leverage and push hard in situations where you can get the benefits without carrying the risk
• Use judgment to create an environment where you are statistically likely to succeed
• Don’t let the last 10% of a project take infinite time, find a way to finish