Successful management, however, decides the right things to do. It s relatively easy to fix a fence, buy better bulls, etc. In order to make decisions about what the right things are to do, an overall view of where you want to go is necessary. The ranch must establish long-term goals and determine plans on how to achieve those goals. The difference in the IRM concept is that management is fully responsible for ranch performance and making the best of situations and opportunities.
Management directs the business and the use of all resources that determine the future.
What s important is what management achieves, not what is done. It is the accumulation of these results that benefit the total ranch. Achievements, good or bad, are the results of your decisions. IRM can help you plan and establish necessary priorities and procedures for improved decision-making. Every decision, including no decision, results in a conflict of resources that is stressful and challenging for the manager.