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Thread #68719   Message #1160983
Posted By: Strick
13-Apr-04 - 01:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Iraqi Battalion Refuses to Fight Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: Iraqi Battalion Refuses to Fight Iraqis
"Strick - What if you put the right information in front of the decision makers and they fail to act on it. Doesn't that make them wrong, decision makers?"

I'm convused by your punctuation, if you're saying that failing to act means they were wrong, fine. Well maybe. It depends how the information is put in front of them and whether it was reasonable to recognize the significance of the information given all of the existing cirucmstances.

Happens all the time with the people working for me. Very talented people make mistakes. When they result from some significantly new circumstance, what they did was still wrong, but we try not to penalize them, even if all the information the needed to avoid the error was available provided that's only clear in retrospect. Anything else is simple pointing fingers.