Auftragstaktik in Pandemics

Most healthcare crises are associated with tepid, uninspired, inadequate, and ill-informed actions of politically motivated senior leaders, leading inevitably to unnecessary mortality and socioeconomic catastrophes. We intend to reduce these inadequacies through advanced Virtual/Augmented Virtual Reality simulation-based training in which the mission-oriented (Auftragstaktik) philosophy combines with the Teams of Leaders (ToL) principles, and OODA (Observe-Orient-Determine-Act) Loop behavioral modification to transform groups of individuals into unified, collaborative, cross-boundary Leader Teams bound by shared actionable understanding that allows rapid identification of operational purpose, definition of the required mission(s), and their execution. Consequent operations become fully collaborative, are shaped by shared skills, knowledge and attitudes, and conducted across barriers of personalities/cultures/organizations and politics. Instantaneous response readiness to pandemics and other healthcare catastrophic events at local, regional, and national/international levels is prioritized at the expense of frequently inadequate, individualized, often race/income biased preparedness based in turn on historical events and/or individual/agency/national interests.

In addition to catastrophic mortality, pandemics comprise a range of micro-subcrises: collapse of economy, political, and socio-legal instability, even the threat of armed conflict. The global response to the COVID19 pandemic revealed not only the extent of global disparities in public health readiness and preparedness, but also an astonishingly indecisive and ill-prepared stance of many bureaucratic/governmental leaders where hearsay and party politics supplanted science, public health, and medicine, opening doors to unbridled mortality and socioeconomic crises. On the global scale, blundering responses caused by incompetent leadership cost (so far) nearly 500,000 lives and 7,000,000 infections.  Importantly, even in the face of now well accepted complexity of the operational environment, mitigation efforts continue to focus on discipline-based principles and discipline-focused responses leading inevitably to clashes of interest, political bickering, media-induced confusion, and the ultimate loss of social cohesiveness and continuing loss of life. The number of lives lost due to indirect causes such as postponed critical surgeries, hunger, psychiatric disorders, drug overdoses is presently unknown. However, if the intended training reaches only1000 executive leaders (a conservative estimate), their downstream impact on the conduct of the most broadly conceived yet unified anti-COVID19 operations and, consequently, on saving lives is inestimable. 

Based on prior experience, we intend to deploy a globally distributed virtual/augmented reality (VR/aVR)-based program that applies concepts of war gaming to the methods of Auftragstaktik, ToL and OODA-Loop. The program is to be delivered using collaborative, web-based (Microsoft Teams, Zoom) and VR/aVR platforms to senior/executive leaders in government, industry, healthcare, public health, NGOs, etc., and generate an international cadre of personnel able to set aside differences of nationality, culture, and organization, and rapidly develop mission-focused actionable understanding, and implement the required actions through lateral regional, national, and cross-border collaboration.

The ToL concept was created by the US Army to facilitate integration of the former Warsaw Pact nations into the EU/NATO and disseminated within EU following intensive training of executive EU leaders in Germany. Subsequently, enriched by the OODA-Loop and Auftragstaktik concepts, its validity as a powerful leadership training platform has been enhanced. The OODA-Loop allows rapid definition of the essential pandemic elements and “real time” response to changes whenever and wherever they occur. The Auftragstaktik mentality allows immediate identification of critical missions, delegation of authority and task execution to and by field operators, and collaborative integration of all activities into a unified process of pandemic confinement and mitigation.

The intent is to develop “leaders who lead, NOT wilt” at all levels of the pandemic response spectrum: local, regional, national, and international. While the program aims initially at a small number of senior political, health, policy, and economical participants (~1000), the short- and long-range downstream impact on the population generated by collaborative, actionable understanding-bound leader teams where experts from all relevant disciplines develop multidimensional solutions and implement them, is inestimable. The COVID19 pandemic is marked by failures of leadership at all levels amplified by poor communication, distortion of facts, and confusion and fear spread by the media. The proposed training program aims to generate the nucleus/core cadre of cross-boundary collaborating leaders that will convert local populations into collaboratively “swarming”, mission-focused action teams operating at all levels of the affected population (locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally). The need for the proposed training has been expressed on numerous occasions during our pilot operations in the past. Hence, the participants will be drawn from among the executives of Central African Countries, Canada, France, and the US. The training will also be incorporated into the “master of disaster management” program under current development at University of Global Equity in Butaro, Rwanda. 

Preparation against novel biothreats requires purpose driven leadership at all levels of response. It is singularly missing in the US during the COVID19 pandemic. The proposed training addresses this issue by transforming blundering individuals into cross-boundary High Performing Leader Teams, united by shared actionable understanding, purpose and mission, and collaborating both vertically and horizontally to identify and immediately respond to all threats that accompany any pandemic, then direct societal recovery following its elimination. The program elevates leadership qualities of current public health bureaucrats while training the new generation of healthcare managers in purpose-focused, mission-driven response to all biothreats.

Not everything can be made 8nto business.

Actually both.  Individuals unite and create teams, teams unite and create organizations.  All have a chance of changing the world.  Look at Jesus, Mohamet, and Buddah and how much global good and global mess emerged.

Networkcentric operations: you are needed to help in estsblishing a global  network of collaborating nodes.  In short, connections, connections, connections building collaborative Hyper Leader Teams and ACTION, direct, immediate, and joint. We have written several papers on the subject.  How to von Lubitz et al. to get the details

Development of s Leader Network joined by actionable understanding, transdisciplinary, and global in nature

WHO, CDC, ORG. OF AFRICAN STATES, EU, MICROSOFT, GOOGLE.  All who have been involved, are involved, and SHOUL be involved

See all above.  I grant you, this all sounds arrogant, stupid, and exceedingly I'll conceived. Yet...We have been doing a lot of this work in the past, offering the free of charge net instead of pricey fish.  App who want to be a part of it are welcome under one condition: they join the Action Club and NOT an Academic Debate Society

I was among the first f upew who opened the world to human patient simulation.  We were the first to offer access to this extremely expensive approach to healthcare personnel in LDCs.  Then we went to sea and did it in mid-South Atlantic.  Then demonstrated, using globally distributed simulation that physicians and paramedics in 5 developed/underdeveloped countries could not distinguish between measles, smallpox and signs of blunt trauma and the initial stages of Ebola infection (unbelievable!).  Then we have shown that leaders of  US milmed effort knew little of what they were talking about (with the singular and magnificently bullsh... cutting exception of the US AIR FORCE SURGEON GENERAL, LTG. PKC).

Having pioneered and a opened a number of new concepts/venues, we are qualified.  As per John Boyd's "Be or Do" we are not.  WE DO!  We need your support to publicise the effort, provide promoting network, "spread the word" and help to acquire foundation support to finance equipment, technology access, and external expertise if such is required.  We are NOT a "business" but provide service, as seen by the horror of a leaderless country - USA - a badly needed one, and one that has been proven to work rather than bandy nice words about brotherhood mankind, empathy, and sentimentally charged concepts.  PEOPLE ARE DYING, and those of the "wrong colour" or no means are dying in numbers that are horrifying.  We need your help do that we can DO instead of listening to the waterfall of words

See above

Do you REALLY mean that women do not die, do not suffer, and that one must emphasize to supposedly intelligent people at YOUR end the critical need for the involvement of women in this business?  If so, look at the plight of mothers cursed with the Zika virus, and how little has been done to address this pandemic.  Boys were and are "developing solutions".  Mothers are crying...

Healthcare leaders are as much needed among the refugees as on the Wall Street.  Actually much, much more because their collaborative effort based on the principles outlined in this petition is the only means to change their plight.

See above.  This is by the people and for the people.  People are dying, politicians are talking, and media continue to seek sensations.  The Gordian Knot of this Globsl Mess can only be addressed by the people who are now the only instrument to cut it.  After all, Vox Populi, Vox Dei.