"Quando tem um problema, saca da carteira e compra uma máquina!"

O meu amigo Aranha tem várias frases que caricaturam o comportamento de um certo tipo de empresário português. Recordo daqui uma delas:

"Quando o empresário português tem um problema, saca da carteira e compra uma máquina!"

Ontem lembrei-me desta frase ao ler " Four Tools for Better Decisions" publicado na revista Rotman Management Spring 2020:

"AS A MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, I’ve seen more than my fair share of ludicrous corporate decisions resulting from hasty leaps to poorly designed solutions. Before becoming a consultant, I was an employee at several companies over the course of 15 years, and I’ve lived through the ramifications of these poor decisions. I’ve seen the sales declines, the layoffs, and the damaged lives.
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Frankly, I’m tired. Tired of seeing leaders jump to conclusions and taking action without really understanding their problem. Tired of seeing leaders arrive at a ‘solution’ that doesn’t solve the real problem at all. Tired of seeing the staggering waste of money and opportunity caused by this knee-jerk approach to problem solving.
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When leadership teams don’t understand the real problem and simply jump to a conclusion, they tend to reach for one of three solutions:

1. Shiny new technology
2. Reorganization
3. Money

If one of these is your answer to a problem — stop. Think again. You may actually be right. You might really need to develop new tech, or create a new organizational structure, or spend more money. But more often than not, you’re about to go down the wrong road. You’ll have a shinier, more expensive, differently organized version of the same problem
that you had before."