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Cross Current: Meanders vs. Objectives

Ad hoc management, muddling-through, crisis management, and seeing what the next day will bring are all possible strategies for managing the wildlands of the world. Some like "Sunday driving" -- just seeing things, no destination...other than to return to "start" before nightfall.

With no destination, any road will take you there...a cute comment.

Meandering is all of the above, decisions buffeted by each supervisor, every political wind, every shift in financial conditions. It may be typical. It does not have to be the condition on the wildland or within the resource agency. It can be reduced, almost avoided if objectives are well formed, well known by all, and leadership moves everyone to them. Simply having objectives will not guarantee that they will be achieved (thus some of the frustration with them). Without them, who knows whether they are being achieved or not?

Effectiveness, as a concept with meaning, must have objectives.

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