The Map Collector

The best cure for the bad habit of mistaking a map with the territory is to find another map of the same territory that contradicts the first, and to understand how both can be accurate. It’s when we cross-reference the two that the dogma breaks down and the details come through. Having more or less trashed the goal-oriented mindset in favor of process, I’m now going to play goalie for the former. So: 1) Are there cases when orienting to an end condition gets better results than orienting to the processes involved in bringing about that condition? 2) If so, how do I choose which perspective to use?