On Jan 15, 10:47*pm, Hawke wrote:

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

Actually it works very well in a chaotic way. The smartest and
luckiest do well. You have companies as Amazon, Ebay, Facebook,
Microsoft, Intel doing really well. Even in industries as steel you
have companies as Nucor going from essentially bankrupt to producing
more steel than any other company. And then there are some like T.
Bone Pickens making a big play on wind energy and being killed by
companies as Chesapeake Energy figuring out ways to get more natural
gas out of the ground.

Your analogy of a football team is has some merit. But closer is the
football leagues. Multiple teams competing with each other. Each
trying to out do the others.

Dan