An interesting debate on strategy versus design and execution
AFR Article on the worst policy decisions this century - Aaron Patrick wrote an interesting article listing the five worst government decisions and listed the NDIS, NBN, Snowy 2.0, the GST reset and Victoria's lockdown etc. What concerned me about the article was not the choice of the five, but the confusion regarding decision making versus design and execution. Nearly all the critique was about design and execution and retrospectively blamed the decision (sorry Aaron). For example, it would be very hard to argue that the NDIS was a bad decision. The problems have all been about design and execution. This concerned me because in business we need to learn lessons about strategic decision making and sperate these from lessons about design and execution If we confuse analysis of the two then we learn the wrong lessons from history. Comments please!