The Role of Chance in Production Arboriculture

摘要

There are many ways to view chance or circumstance. Some may call it outright luck. After over two decades in this field, I fully admit that some days it is better to be lucky than good. Many times, even with careful planning and as much precision asone can muster through training, education, and experience, "things" just simply fell my way. The fence was spared, the roof not damaged, the injury avoided.There are also many cliched ways to avoid the stigma or transfer the element of chance into something more. As Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli business man, once quipped, "Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality." There is an element of truth in there.