This comment was so good. The ending paragraph is amazing:
This quote from The Personal MBA also resonates: “great management is boring—and often unrewarding. The hallmark of an effective manager is anticipating likely issues and resolving them in advance, before they become an issue… Less skilled managers are actually more likely to be rewarded, since everyone can see them “making things happen” and “moving heaven and earth” to resolve issues—issues they may have created themselves via poor management.”
I really like how this points out the incentives where high functionality can be punished.
It seems heroic to setup a new org that fights COVID-19 across many continents, you can get press in the NYT, Vox, whatever.
Yet, another person who tracked down the first patients or caused a city to be locked down in the first few days might be far more effective, but despite this pay a high price for this behavior (e.g. many false positives; uncertainty is high).
It can be extremely costly and punishing to anticipate future events and act to prevent them. By its nature the people who are best at this, are often not understood.
Maybe increasing literacy of the issues, as well as institutional competence and capacity can help.
This comment was so good. The ending paragraph is amazing:
I really like how this points out the incentives where high functionality can be punished.
It seems heroic to setup a new org that fights COVID-19 across many continents, you can get press in the NYT, Vox, whatever.
Yet, another person who tracked down the first patients or caused a city to be locked down in the first few days might be far more effective, but despite this pay a high price for this behavior (e.g. many false positives; uncertainty is high).
It can be extremely costly and punishing to anticipate future events and act to prevent them. By its nature the people who are best at this, are often not understood.
Maybe increasing literacy of the issues, as well as institutional competence and capacity can help.