Intuição vs Procedimentação

Assisti em primeira mão, sobretudo durante a década de 1985 a 1995, ao despedimento, com indemnizações e pré-reformas, de muitas pessoas com dezenas de anos de experiência.
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Em muitos casos tal foi acompanhado por processos de re-engenharia e/ou automação ou procedimentação das práticas.
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Em muitos casos tal foi acompanhado com a admissão de caloiro(a)s muito mais barato(a)s.
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Volto a Gary Klein e a "The Power of Intuition" com um trecho que chama a atenção para o papel da intuição e o perigo da procedimentação pura e simples:
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"The pace of change continues to accelerate. Historical ways of doing business are pronounced obsolete, and the experience of seasoned employees is discounted. Tried and true approaches are treated as legacy problems that have to be replaced. The specialists who have mastered these approaches are then part of the legacy problem.
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Many organizations attempt to take refuge in procedures. This happens when supervisors play it safe and reduce the task to procedures even if those procedures don’t really capture all of the nuances and tricks of the trade. Turning a job into a set of procedures makes it easier for new workers to carry out their responsibilities, and it also supports accountability by letting managers more easily verify if the procedures were followed. Unfortunately, this practice can make it even harder to build up intuitions if the procedures eliminate the need for judgment calls. Clearly, we need procedures to help us react quickly to emergencies, or to orient new workers. Once a set of procedures is in place, however, supervisors may not bother teaching the skills workers need to understand or modify the procedures. This is how the expertise that makes a company great gets lost. There is a strong tendency in our culture to proceduralize almost everything, to reduce all types of work to a series of steps. But you cannot reduce intuition to a procedure.
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Organizations may try to reduce decisions and judgments to procedures by defining metrics (i.e., measurable objectives). Metrics are often seen as a way to replace intuitions. They can be useful as a corrective to relying too heavily on impressions, but if managers try to make decisions based on numbers alone they run the risk of eroding their intuitions.
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Finally, information technologies are taking their toll. Too often decision aids and smart systems are reducing their operators to clerks responsible for feeding data into the systems. In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, nurses are given much more training to operate the monitoring equipment than in how to detect the subtle signs of illness in the infants. Operators come to passively follow what the information technology recommends rather than relying on their intuition.
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We have less time and fewer chances to achieve expertise in our current jobs compared to previous generations. And we are faced with the obstacles listed above that further degrade our intuitions. Diminished experience, rapid turnover, little coaching, increased pace of change, reliance on procedures and metrics, widespread use of information technologies to make decisions—all of these create an unprecedented assault on our intuitions.
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Why do we tolerate all of these barriers? Because people don’t fully understand what intuition is and how it develops. So they’re unaware of these barriers and their cumulative effects. The erosion of intuition will continue until we take active steps to defend ourselves.
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Business leaders rarely have sufficient data for conducting analysis. As time and budgetary pressures increase, we have fewer chances to try options out to test their feasibility, forcing us to make snap judgments. At times like these, intuition must replace guesswork. This is why the loss of intuitive decision-making skills is so detrimental. (Por isso falo e escrevo na importância da experiência de vida)
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The longer we wait to defend our intuitions, the less we will have to defend. We are more than the sum of our software programs and analytical methods, more than the databases we can access, more than the procedures we have been asked to memorize. The choice is whether we are going to shrink into these artifacts or expand beyond them."