CHAPTER EIGHT
Long-Range Planning
IT IS EASIER TO DEFINE long-range planning by what it is not rather than by what it is. Three things in particular, which it is commonly believed to be, it emphatically is not.
1. First, it is not “forecasting.” It is not masterminding the future, in other words. Any attempt to do so is foolish; human beings can neither predict nor control the future.
If anyone still suffers from the delusion that the ability to forecast beyond the shortest time-span is given to us, let him look at the headlines in yesterday’s paper, and then ask himself which of them he could possibly have predicted ten years ago.
Could he have ...
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