Qualifications

OK, so you are new to a job. You have little to no experience or qualifications to do what you are doing and there are people subordinate to you that conduct business that you have had no experience in. You are not really sure how to direct them, but they have around 30 years experience doing what they do and have been promoted continually until they are at the top of the food chain for their department. They are highly competent and considered the best in the world at what they do.

So, and issue arises. Your very competent and experienced subordinates make a strong recommendation, in unison. The consequences of failure to properly address this issue is total failure. Again, you have no experience to pull from so you don't have the expertise to pull this off without a bit of help. What do you do?

You are smart, have gotten to where you are for a variety of reason, not all of them good. You make your decision. You have just told your top leaders to pound sand. What kind of sense does that make? You decide to listen to other leaders in your organization that are from a completely different department who are just as equally as unqualified as you are to make educated decisions in the affected area. Only there is one person who THINKS they know what they are talking about because they were married to a person who used to have your job, but he was just as unqualified as you in the affected area. And yes, he jacked it up too. Now picture there is a large group of people, employees if you will, who are voicing their opinion. Most of them, say 95% of them, have zero experience in the affected department either, but you begin to listen to them. It's kind of like the Indians are running the tribe when the tribe REALLY needs a Chief!!

But where is the Chief? He left the job and moved to a new location.

People, you should be careful what you ask for. Cuz now you got it!