When studying Administration and Management, one of the first concepts that appear are those of Operation, Tactics and Strategy. These terms denote the planning horizon used to make decisions.
If decisions are made to address immediate issues (days, weeks) are said operativas.Si decision making decisions that will bear fruit in months, we talk about tactics. And if the results are expected in years, talking about strategy.
and closely linked to decision making is the concept of investment. One decides to do or not do something to improve a situation, to turn a profit, material or not. And you invest some money, effort or time at least, waiting to collect fruits to repay the investment. Certainly the short-term decisions in general brought small fruits, while the long term bring much larger fruit, but just wait and invest in all the waiting.
And always the resources (time, money, effort) are limited. When you invest something in the length, it is leaving to invest in the short, and therefore it is sacrificing immediate profit in towards the probability of a larger one in the future.
Thus good governance is balancing distributes its resources results in the short, medium and long term. If any of these things missing, the question is not sustainable.
And this is not true only for organizations, so for all. For animals to humans, for companies to countries, for the whole world.
Much is that using "operational" world's natural resources is causing a strategic disaster. To increase the benefits now, we destroy the earning capacity future.
Nature also injected into the animal instincts to take care of this balance. The respiratory system is responsible for operating it, and even depends on the animal's decision to run, not to risk this. The digestive system is responsible for the tactical, to produce energy for the medium term. And the reproductive system is responsible for strategic, passing the gene to the next generation and project into the future. As animals are not capable of planning complex nature provided with operational or immediate rewards to motivate them to care for the medium and long term. Hunger or the need for calm, makes you pay attention to the tactical. And sexual pleasure makes you pay attention to the strategic.
human beings we move from animals to possess the intellectual capacity to consciously plan and sacrifice current resources more pending future fruits. Of course every human being at different distances away from the animals (je!). The more short-term (unplanned) is our nature, the closer we are of our four-legged cousins.
In general, a greater capacity to manage the three levels of decision, is correlated with greater ability to achieve the objectives they have, whatever they were.
can cite many examples. A student spending years in his career, instead of living only the short term and have more fun, is betting on strategy. A migrant welfare sacrificing the present and medium term, pending a substantial change in the long run, this betting strategy. A migrant who migrate without planning because it has no other option, however operationally acts. Someone avoiding the pleasure of swallowing a rich dessert, is sacrificing pleasure towards operating tactical benefit (better picture). A merchant who cheats his customers pockets as sacrificing the strategic operational.
Of course, if countries talk about management, the importance of this balance is multiplied exponentially. The great challenge of governance is to pay attention to long-term growth, priority, without neglecting the day.
However, when it is leading a government and is making a mess in the strategy of long-term growth, whether that is incompetent, corrupt, or a combination of both, is a very old solution that works beautifully. For the first century the Romans created the concept of Bread and Circus. Giving people food and entertainment in exchange for approval. What happened in reality the state was out of intellectual reach of the poor beasts, so their most primitive covering everything would be fine. And of course it was essential to keep in a state of ignorance to the triviality and frivolity was efectivas.Tanto tools continue to be successful this approach has been replicated countless times by dictators, demagogues and populists during these 2000 years.
The Bread and Circus in Argentina has always been present, but never as roughly as now presented. The decline is such that people respond without having the government the need to disguise crass intent.
When the current president took office, I wrote the following note on my blog:
It said the first speech government was destined for a major bad time: inflation. What was the announcement?: forcing merchants to lower the price of nougat and ciders, to have happy holidays to all.
Instead of attacking the only cause of inflation exists, that policy mismanagement money was spent to give bread to the agile, inventing through deceit and disinformation false heroes and villains.
Then, making a legal mess, the government began to squander the national budget smelly "FREE FOR ALL FOOTBALL, through a state channel devoted only to the" Propaganda "Official.
But I could not stop laughing for a long while, when I read yesterday that "Krishtina" announced the plan "Milanese FOR ALL", under which central market will sell Milanese rebosadas delicious to $ 21 a kilo. "And so we fight against inflation! "
From start to finish its mandate, the focus was always on the bread and circus, because what's underneath is really presentable. But of course, Argentina is becoming populated more and more people responding to operational, or even suspect that is strategic. And so, with the people impoverished, brutalized and permanently in response to gifts, the emperors have more opportunity to stay in power.
"What are you complaining 'chabon!
If participating in a picket in the morning, and a demonstration in the afternoon, so throw you pointers, and mow you buy 'a kilo of mila. And laburar !
Grande Kris! "
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