Comments on: Provocation #1 The Expertise Conundrum https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:11:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.4 By: Fianda Briliyandi https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-415045 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:25:59 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-415045 Good article, thanks for sharing, please visit

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By: Rubhesh https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-415032 Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:39:44 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-415032 Leaders are to lead as it’s core function especially more detrimental at the time of crisis when answers are less than the questions and changing continuously. To grasp the situation and lead towards new reality, experts are essential to aid the decisional inputs but the call to action is taken by leaders to navigate while those inputs still have inherent risks. With the serving for others at it’s centre, leader can combine the views/suggestion of experts from their individual domain and involve the one who will actually be affected so the ownership is distributed making the execution relatively smooth tonteachbto the new reality. Even if the result is not the ideal one, it would give momentum for the action needed in future for another crisis. It can be a continuous process for improving the model and adjust rather than fixing one formula solving all issue.

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By: Melanie Schmidt https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-415031 Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:12:05 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-415031 Executives need to be informed by the evidence of the world around them (experts from inside and outside their organization) within a time-bound parameter to make the decisions with the best information at the time that advances the mission/intent/purpose of the organization. In the case of COVID-19, one does need to “follow the science” as balanced by the demands/needs of the clients and the ability for both leveraging and aligning the human, financial, intellectual, and social capital of the organization. We prepare leaders by shifting thought and value of management as a practice that requires art, skill, and discipline. We bolster their abilities to ask provocative questions, listen intently to answers, and make the decisions necessary to advance mission and meaning. We uphold personal responsibility, compassionate accountability, and reset expectations for advancing thinkers and achievers, rather than rewarding risk-aversion and mediocrity.

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By: A. Sattlberger https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-415029 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:37:27 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-415029 This discussion about highly philosophical questions of decision making is quite interesting. However, for this case study about a rational approach for dealing with COVID-19 it is appalling, how decision makers and their helpers utterly fail in actually mastering the first step in decision making: describing the situation correctly.

Every first year student in a natural or social science class is taught the basics of a valid description of the empirical data. But in the case of COVID-19, all kinds of case data are thrown around without regard to the reference population, alpha error (false positive results), expected base fatality rates, etc.

Even more deplorable then seems to be the blind belief of leaders to accept this kind of mis-representation at face value. The incessant media shouting “another 100 fatalities” just creates panic and is devoid of any meaning.

A simple solution would be to educate decision makers in stats 101. This goes back to the fundamentals that Dr. Drucker and Dr. Deming demanded.

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By: Jan De Baere https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-415026 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:41:24 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-415026 In reply to Sebastian Woller.

In my opinion we need diversity of experts. People with deep knowledge in different fields. Creating the space where those people can consent to a plan and make it happen is what leadership is for me.

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By: José Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio, PhD. https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-415004 Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:05:42 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-415004 Please consider the post “Is Drucker’s Management Challenges for the Systemic Civilization on the opposite side force field of academic privilege? ( https://grupomillenium.blogspot.com/2016/10/is-druckers-management-challenges-for.html ),” written before the 8th Global Peter Drucker Forum 17 – 18 November 2016, Vienna – Austria, whose main theme is THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SOCIETY. By selecting some of the first 14 comments on this webpage, I updated that post with its “First update. Provocation #1 about The Expertise Conundrum.” Please comment!

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By: José Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio, PhD. https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-414987 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:57:15 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-414987 In reply to Richard Straub.

Dear Richard,

In a world where hardhead gatekeepers have been escalating since WWII to reduce democracy to the point that now China seems more democratic than what used to be The West, my synthesis of your “… conversation with Julia Kirby and Steve Denning” is that under The Wealth of Globalization context, we still have what are supposed to be leaders under The Wealth of Nations context of the Contemporary Age operating as managers while keeping potential leaders in lower contexts. That means that we lack the needed global leaders of the Cybernetic Age under The Wealth of Globalization to enable “leadership everywhere.” To do so, maybe it might be useful, for example, my humble most recent Medium response “Opportunity for Experts 2.0: an alternative for the #NewMacyMeeting ( https://medium.com/@gmh_upsa/opportunity-for-experts-2-0-an-alternative-for-the-newmacymeeting-d888720cdb5e ).”

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By: Michail Skartoulis https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/provocation-1-the-expertise-conundrum/#comment-414982 Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:50:08 +0000 https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=2777#comment-414982 The coronavirus crisis has brought on the surface, the incapability of many leaders to decide what is their goal. As a leader, if you have clarity on what you want to achieve, then you can ask the right questions and seek the “expert” advice that is required, in any way or form it will become available to you (consultants, forecast models etc.) For example, if you are running a country, (probably) your biggest trade off is, saving lives vs saving the economy. If you are running a business, your trade off is saving peoples jobs vs saving the business itself. So what do you want to do? If you know what is your goal, then it all becomes clear, you don’t have to over-analyze the situation. You can make decisions fast, using the correct expertise.

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