Plan top down, not bottom up.
In the case study area, the mean size of old forest patches increased from 3.4 to 5.7 ha in 30 years in the top-down plan, and to 4.6 ha in the bottom-up plan.
What got them the job was that, as the firm puts it: "Circle arrives not with a top-down plan to impose change, but with a proven methodology of unleashing NHS professionals' talent through clinical leadership and devolved decision-making".
Meanwhile, although Barack Obama's own ambitious (but top-down) plan to make community college free to students nationwide is stuck in limbo, other state policymakers are visiting Tennessee to see what it's doing, and Oregon already has initiated a similar plan.
You'd be amazed how many mistakes are avoided when teams are tapped into each other's concerns, rather than receiving a top-down plan through vertical channels.
JAFZA was built from scratch in accordance with a top-down plan, and is now the model for other such zones that are sprouting up along the various routes of the New Silk Road.
However, while OBOR is no longer the name of the initiative, it is still the same top-down plan to build new ports, roads, railways, power plants, and special economic zones across Asia and Africa in an attempt to integrate the entire region into a massive market spanning 60 countries and a third of the world's GDP.
The demand-driven "top-down" planning of Urban Underground Space (UUS) is common worldwide.
China is not a democratic country, but it has top-down planning.
Comprehensive, top-down planning imposed obligations on all elements in the manufacturing spectrum, from suppliers to contractors to employees.
