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On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:40:25 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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tabbypurr wrote:

A politician doesn't need to be an expert in his own right. Just know
who to take advice from.

There's one fatal flaw with that idea. If you're not an expert you
really don't know who to listen to.


It's called good management. Knowing who to listen to.

Yup. And it often fails.
Some subjects it's easy, things are as they first appear. Some subjects
are the opposite, on those people are much more likely to pick the wrong
'expert' the one that reflects their initial assumptions.

Unless you expect every CEO to be familiar with every single aspect of
his
company.

Unlikely. But they'd better know as much
as poss, business failure rates are high.

But failure isnt usually due to the CEO not understanding
the basic technical details well. Its much more often due
to bit being able to predict what the market or its
competitors will get up to.

Juan Trippe of Pan Am understood what the 747 would
do for the aviation market and encouraged Boeing to
make it very quickly, but then saw Pan Am go bust when
the entire market changed with low cost carriers.

And I've run into enough situations where not knowing a subject
relevant to one's business could be a business ender or a big risk.
Anyone can get into business, most don't survive it.