Cool post with insights into an interesting industry!
I’ve been in positions with executive authority in multiple locations in multiple industries and at my best guess 90% of quick fixes had maximum 10% positive impact (ranging to greatly negative impact) that they were supposed to have.
Much of what humanity does is too complicated to completely understand and formalize into structures that enable the type of analysis that allows you to figure out the right “quick fix”...particularly to outsiders! (Not to discount the very real benefits outside eyes can bring to a problem.)
edit: To expand, I’m not talking about only quick fixes created and implemented by me. There’s always someone coming in with some thing to fix all our problems and we’ll either see the shortcoming’s of the plan up front or try them out and be disappointed.
edit2: Previously I said “quick fixes had 10% of the impact”. I just changed that to something more accurate.
Do you mean that they had only 10% of the impact they were supposed to have? If they had 90% (i.e. almost all) of the planned impact, that’s pretty good. There’s always small details that were missed.
Cool post with insights into an interesting industry!
I’ve been in positions with executive authority in multiple locations in multiple industries and at my best guess 90% of quick fixes had maximum 10% positive impact (ranging to greatly negative impact) that they were supposed to have.
Much of what humanity does is too complicated to completely understand and formalize into structures that enable the type of analysis that allows you to figure out the right “quick fix”...particularly to outsiders! (Not to discount the very real benefits outside eyes can bring to a problem.)
edit: To expand, I’m not talking about only quick fixes created and implemented by me. There’s always someone coming in with some thing to fix all our problems and we’ll either see the shortcoming’s of the plan up front or try them out and be disappointed.
edit2: Previously I said “quick fixes had 10% of the impact”. I just changed that to something more accurate.
Do you mean that they had only 10% of the impact they were supposed to have? If they had 90% (i.e. almost all) of the planned impact, that’s pretty good. There’s always small details that were missed.
Ahh yes, 10% of the impact they were supposed to have. Thanks for noting that.