Entity Dossier
Organization
AAF
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Decision FrameworkFacts Then Decision Then Action — No FalteringCapital StrategyPlow Cash Back Into AcreageStrategic PatternCapability as the ProductSignature MoveWindows of the Mind Not Product ListsRelationship LeverageNegotiate From Their Chair FirstDecision FrameworkSmall Solution Scaled to Big ProblemCornerstone MoveOne Building Block Then Mosaic OutwardCornerstone MoveStock From His Own Hide to Hook the Best FishSignature MoveOutwork Them Past MidnightSignature MoveLet Fresh Ideas Prove Themselves Before ShootingOperating PrincipleFifty-Foot Rope for Thirty-Foot DrowningSignature MoveGrab Authority or Lose It
Primary Evidence
""As I see it, the outstanding characteristics which made it possible for him, beginning as a second lieutenant and not thirty years old, to build the Statistical Control system throughout the AAF and get correct action taken on the facts it brought in, are complete moral courage, unusual persist-"
Source:Someone Has to Make It Happen; The Inside Story of Tex Thornton, the Man Who Built Litton Industries