New CBA agreement

[F Gump]

I doubt it´s a problem of expertise.

I do. Cumulative results over time tell if the decision maker has elite level expertise in getting his job done expertly.

"I knew what to do but went a different direction" does not change an ongoing fail result. Instead it reveals that the expertise of the decision-maker is deficient because they don't know how to set the right priorities to get the proper result (or they are lying to cover their butt for repeated failure).

"We have lots of smart people offering good ideas" is not expertise either. That's no different than having a library full of reference books and a computer full of how-to videos. Having access to good ideas is not having expertise unless those resources are then used to make decisions that get the results at an expert level. Ideas can be many and varied, so much of the genius of a genius is knowing how to separate out the best from the rest, and get it done.

Also it's not just a lack of high-level ideas they can't find a way to execute, but there's a bigger hole in the expertise than that -- by every indication, Cuban has no real long term vision and road map for how to get from where they are to where they want to be. At best it appears he just stumbles towards a series of one-off ideas, that may or may not go anywhere. But "the rest of the story," having a plan for filling in the gaps that will bring ongoing improvement, there's none of that.

An expert GM setting the course, and making the decisions would be a game-changer. But those are expensive; and Cuban's been proving for a while that he's not the big spender he likes to play on TV.