This article is in three parts. The entire series will take us through a Permaculture Design Project at a property in Italy. Firstly we will look at how the project was observed, then the analysis that was undertaken before starting the design.
Holistic Goal
What is it?
A holistic goal is a three-part goal describing the quality of life desired, the forms of production to get there, and the future resource base that the forms of production depend on. A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a goal. A task is one step in the plan of action to accomplish a goal.
A Holistic Goal (now referred to as a “Holistic Context” by the Savory Institute) is necessary for anyone who wants to be a Holistic Manager. It can help you with your personal life, your business, and your family life. Having a Holistic Goal has eliminated a lot of decision-making stress in my life.
Holistic Management involves using a simple decision-making framework that ensures all significant management decisions are simultaneously economically, socially and environmentally sound both short and long term. No longer are decisions made toward objectives or goals alone, but always toward a new concept called the holistic goal for any management situation. The holistic goal provides the context for all objectives, goals or actions toward any vision or mission. This helps greatly in avoiding unintended consequences to our actions that are so universal that economists long ago used the term “Law of unintended consequences.”
-Allan Savory
What you have to manage?
A Permaculture project: Rebuild the house with two or three rooms to rent, food production for the family and guests, trees…
…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…
