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*Point: skill and knowledge are rare, thus increasing effectiveness from people of mediocre skill or knowledge is the game of being an effective executive, in the broad sense. | |||
*Operations research people were supposed to be polymaths, but then their deep skill would be wasted on operations? P19 | *Operations research people were supposed to be polymaths, but then their deep skill would be wasted on operations? P19 | ||
*But we do have ample supply of the incompetent | *But we do have ample supply of the incompetent | ||
Revision as of 04:43, 12 June 2023
Classic book on management.
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- Point: skill and knowledge are rare, thus increasing effectiveness from people of mediocre skill or knowledge is the game of being an effective executive, in the broad sense.
- Operations research people were supposed to be polymaths, but then their deep skill would be wasted on operations? P19
- But we do have ample supply of the incompetent
- We could use people of broader knowledge. We certainly could use people of much greater abilities in many places. But not much can be done with further effort in these 2 areas. P18. Bullshit.
- Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual - p11
- Manual work - doing things right rather getting the right things done.
- The greatest wisdom not applied to action is meaningless data -p5
- You can manage no one yet be an executive p8
- Execs - make decisions of impact upon results
- Because of 4 affordances of the corporation, the exec should assume that he will be ineffective, unless special means are taken to become effective.