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Bad artical paddling completely unsubstantiated theory and making absurd claims - very likely to benefit his own career as non-engineer leader. Author basicall
by sytelus 9y ago
Bad artical paddling completely unsubstantiated theory and making absurd claims - very likely to benefit his own career as non-engineer leader.
Author basically rides his argument on one "paper" which also makes out-of-the-thin-air arguments in similar fashion. The central point of the argument is that science is incapable of dealing with complex incompletely specified systems with uncertainties. Then author goes one step ahead and makes a sweeping statement that people who are good at scientific approach have decreased abilities to deal with this kind of problems! On the other hand, so called "leaders" have this natural "charm" to allow them to work with such systems without requiring scientific mindset. He then cites Donald Trump as proof of his argument. In my long career I have actually came across such leaders with natural "charm" and I can attest that chances of have them destruct the project is much higher than a leader with engineering background.
So the conclusion is that if person is less scientific then better chance that he would be good leader. I think author has time travelled from 500 BC and is not aware of entire fields of complexity theory, chaos, probability, statistics. He is probably also unaware that virtually every major leader from Alexander to JFK have used science to win their wars and had fairly good understanding and ability to naturally apply those methods to their problems.
No need to waste your time in reading this BS.