glen e. p. ropella wrote:
But you're not talking about management, there. You're
talking about execution. You _are_ the best person to determine whether
or not you _need_ a tumor removed from your brain (regardless of how
much an elitist M.D. might tell you otherwise).
If a community doesn't access to people with the skills to effectively
solve a problem, then the problem won't get solved. Management is just
one skill set.
I could have a brain tumor that's just a lump of harmless gunk, or one
that was likely to kill me, or one that would be likely to kill me, but
intervention will only kill me sooner. The `management' decision I can
make is basically limited to how many opinions I can get or how much
research it's feasible for me to do in a short amount of time. It's
parameterized by my desire for quality of life over a certain amount of
time and tolerance for risk. The medical advice drives the decision
and in this sense, the decision is made for me.
And it
is best to have someone from the space shuttle affected regions to
decide the when/where/who of building a space shuttle.
Here again, the benefits of developing a space program are intangible to
many, yet hugely valuable in the end. The car salesman that didn't
want his taxes going to (frivolously) a send a man to the moon, doesn't
connect the fact that 45 years later she is watching DirectTV thanks to
that leadership and the national aggregation of wealth that facilitated
it.
The most real stuff there is comes from sustained developed of theory
and technology, and that often takes real money, beyond what local
communities can fund.
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