Planning and Decision Making

As noted in Chapter 1, Management and the Arts, planning is one of the primary functions of management. However, as the above quote also notes, the decisions made in planning for an organization are often a product of changes that have already taken place in the world. Thus, we have the interesting challenge of planning for future changes by becoming acutely aware of our current circumstances. For the arts manager this translates into developing a planning process that is both fl exible and systematic.