-Find a systematic/methodical way of identifying which people are really good at strategic thinking, and help them use their skills in relevant work; maybe try to hire from outside the usual recruitment pools.
If deemed feasible (in a short enough amount of time): train some people mainly on strategy, so as to get a supply of better strategists.
-Encourage people to state their incompetence in some domains (except maybe in cases where it makes for bad PR) / embrace the idea of specialization and division of labour more: maybe high-level strategists don’t need as much expertise on the technical details, only the ability to see which phenomena matter (assuming domain experts are able to communicate well enough)
Strong upvote. Slightly worried by the fact that this wasn’t written, in some form, earlier (maybe I missed a similar older post?)
I think we[1] can, and should, go even further:
-Find a systematic/methodical way of identifying which people are really good at strategic thinking, and help them use their skills in relevant work; maybe try to hire from outside the usual recruitment pools.
If deemed feasible (in a short enough amount of time): train some people mainly on strategy, so as to get a supply of better strategists.
-Encourage people to state their incompetence in some domains (except maybe in cases where it makes for bad PR) / embrace the idea of specialization and division of labour more: maybe high-level strategists don’t need as much expertise on the technical details, only the ability to see which phenomena matter (assuming domain experts are able to communicate well enough)
say, the people who care about preventing catastrophic events, in a broad sense