Having a Plan

In dealing with complex things, it is usually better to plan an approach rather than just see what happens and react.

Now plans need to be flexible since things might happen that have unforeseen consequences, but they are always useful to get things going.

Our new administration never disclosed in any great detail its plans and its pretty clear it didn't really have any.

Take health care.

Repeal or even repeal an replace are not plans, simply slogans.

What we hear could become part of a plan, but they are simply statements about what they like and there's no agreement on any of it.

Now there's always the chance that something good will happen, but as much of a chance, maybe more than either nothing will happen or something bad will happen.

The presidential campaigns go on for such a long time that developing some plans shouldn't be much of a problem, if you try at all.

Of course if you are convinced that you can simply make an executive decision and have it implemented, like many CEOs do, it might come as a bit of a surprise to you that the Government is different.

Now to be fair, the CEOs rely on many sources of information, but generally not fake news sites.

Consultants, internal staff and others analyze the choices and give the executives a few ways to go with the consequences and risk and they pick the one they like best.

Of course you have to have the briefers do their homework for this to work.

Government is trickier since there are actually checks and balances that can stop your actions.

The legislature has to provide funding and the judiciary has to say its constitutional.

One would have considered that if they ever passed a civics class or had a plan.

So I guess we all get to be surprised by what happens just like the president.