Plans

As a plant manager I was faced with how to handle plans for the installation of new equipment and it poses a dilemma. Since plans like this often change as they progress if you inform the people in the plant along the way it can give the impression that management does not know what it is doing. If you do not inform it is quite a shock when people come to work Monday morning and there sits a new machine that may be used to eliminate some jobs. I chose to reveal things as they happened recognizing that it was not a straight line but a zig zag of changing ideas and plans. Trump seems to prefer that approach also since the complaints against him are that he changes his plans as the program unfolds. Many politicians would be silent until the final plan was firm and the people would have to depend on leaks to find out what is happening. There is an upside downside to either approach.