Stroup on Clutch Decisions

Jim Stroup at Managing Leadership discusses the difference between psychiatry and psychology and applies the distinction to management:

On the face of it, the psychiatrist is right. Every time. But problems of one sort or another, seemingly quite different, keep recurring in one form or another.

And so the psychologist steps in to argue that the problem isn’t in the mechanical state of the car, but in the mental state of the driver, who needs to be taught how to safely and economically operate this sort of car in various traffic and environmental conditions. Once that is done, the problem will not recur.