Robert McNamara: good analytics, bad judgment
Tom Davenport on former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and how he failed despite good analytics.
McNamara was a hedgehog rather than a fox, an engineer rather than an ecologist. The hedgehog knows one big thing, and for McNamara that was rational systems analysis. If he'd been a fox, he'd have brought additional perspectives to America's pressing p…
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