On the Effectively Wild podcast, Sam Miller was wondering whether smart management experts from the business world without much baseball knowledge might revolutionize baseball further. However, I argued back that you do need subject knowledge (baseball in this instance) for effective leadership.
Ben Lindbergh @BenLindbergh .@EWPod Episode 765 is up @baseballpro and iTunes: MLB's MBA Future, with @jjq01. http://bbp.cx/a/27875
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@SamMillerBP I teach management and @jjq01 is right that leaders need technical knowledge (Robert Katz, 1955) not just management skills.
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@SamMillerBP @jjq01 In the Innovators (2014) @WalterIsaacson argues it is people and technical skills that are needed for breakthroughs.
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@SamMillerBP @jjq01 In How Google Works (2014) @ericschmidt emphasizes that Google makes sure 1/2 of employees are engineers.
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@SamMillerBP @jjq01 So you two were right on in the podcast to say that you need people with technical knowledge to ask the right questions.
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@AndyRowell @SamMillerBP thx. And, more broadly, I think it's important to have people with different backgrounds to ask different questions
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