The Vikings might or might not have a winning season in a given year, but by all accounts, the organization is run professionally. The players wear snazzy uniforms, show up for games on time and most weeks, victorious or not, entertain millions of fans while playing in a state-of-the-art stadium.
Such operational successes are no accident. Vikings owners organize their football enterprise according to a proven management model, hiring capable people who share their vision while arranging employees in a hierarchy of responsibility and holding them accountable.
Now compare that model to one with far greater responsibility: ensuring that Minnesota lakes and rivers are clean; its wild lands and the critters they support are conserved; its state parks and similar areas are established and maintained, and its forests are sustained in ways that support loggers, loggerhead shrikes and everything in between.
