There are two ways to do planning. One is to have really smart people
in the government do the planning. Which means you have one plan and
it had better work.

The other way is to allow everyone to do the planning. Which means
you have thousands of plans which are always being revised. You also
have all the stupid people doing planning, but this is offset by the
fact that you have all the brilliant people doing planning too.

Dan


The problem is that when you let everyone do the planning it never
works. It's chaos. When you allow the smartest people to do the planning
they don't always get it right either. But at least you have a better
chance than if you let everyone get in on the planning. It's like being
in a football huddle. You let the quarterback call the plays. They don't
always work. Most of the time they don't. But it's a lot better than
having everyone in the huddle fighting over what to do.

Hawke