Planning is everything. Rogers Doing the very best job possible requires a deliberately chosen course.
Planning is vital.
In the department the chair must lead his or her colleagues into the future, and must initiate and guide the planning process. That process, if it is to work most effectively, will be essentially continuous. Planning thus conducted keeps constantly before everyone a clear sense of what the department is and what it is becoming. A department is a part of the College and its planning should reflect that fact. Departmental goals should be consonant with college goals and planning assumptions while reflecting the unique nature of the department.