{"id":3258,"date":"2008-06-23T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2008-06-23T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:02:27","slug":"bhb-and-real-estates-ooda-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3258\/bhb-and-real-estates-ooda-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"BHB and Real Estate&#8217;s OODA Loop."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason that I became a part of BHB was because BHB wants to matter <em>most.&nbsp; <\/em>I don&#8217;t agree with everything Greg says or does (and he doesn&#8217;t always agree with me), but the core ethos at BHB is peerless.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the same reason why I dug the Smashing Pumpkins so much.&nbsp; Like him or not, Billy wanted to be the best rock band that rock and roll has ever seen.&nbsp; He took title shot after title shot.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t make it, but we are all enriched for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EsZYqaSc4cU\">his efforts<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; BHB is full of people that want to raise the bar so high that everyone benefits.&nbsp; BHB wants to be the best RE blog ever, and we&#8217;re doing it, and I get to be part of it.&nbsp; Oh, the fun. <\/p>\n<p>But why to we have a head start?&nbsp; It&#8217;s about the ideas, and it&#8217;s about the ethos of being independent, fierce, smart and fast.&nbsp; Getting ideas out here quickly, with no rules, no committee is the best thing we do here.&nbsp; And so, for those (few) of you that aren&#8217;t familiar with the OODA loop, I had to call it to your attention.<\/p>\n<p>This is what BHB is doing doing, and it comes from a famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Boyd\">fighter pilot<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.&nbsp; Repeat. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OODA_Loop\">wikipedia<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By observing and reacting to events more quickly than an opponent, you can &#8216;get inside,&#8217; their decision cycle and gain advantage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"188\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/image-thumb.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Zillow was the most obvious example.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When you&#8217;re inside the loop, you&#8217;re disrupting others and forcing them to react to you.&nbsp; Zillow got inside the NAR&#8217;s loop with the Zestimate, and changed the industry.&nbsp; The NAR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/hotproperty\/archives\/2007\/03\/realtorcom_take.html\">reacted<\/a>, but now has to consider Zillow (and all transparency implications that come with free data) in everything they do.&nbsp; Everyone benefits when we crash the loop of a bad actor, and we&#8217;re all in Zillow&#8217;s debt because the NAR has to get better&#8211;or else they risk being irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>We benefit when we crash anyone&#8217;s loop because once we can do that once, we can repeat the process ad infinitum, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3258\/bhb-and-real-estates-ooda-loop\/#more-3258\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason that I became a part of BHB was because BHB wants to matter most.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t agree with everything Greg says or does (and he doesn&#8217;t always agree with me), but the core ethos at BHB is peerless.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the same reason why I dug the Smashing Pumpkins so much.&nbsp; Like him or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15233,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15233\/bhb-unchained-five-smooth-stones\/","url_meta":{"origin":3258,"position":0},"title":"BHB Unchained &#8211; Five smooth stones.","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I for one, am looking forward to getting together with Greg and Brian and the rest of the gang in Anaheim. 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