If you manage a hospital, you should actively monitor the most important day-to-day details, and look at accounting reports only as validation of what you did earlier. you should understand what drives your profits (i. e., understand your costs and revenues). you should plan ahead - for example, if the population ages, plan for more business, etc. what should you not do - you should not stay away from the hospital and just look at the accounting statements as they arrive in your email. in terms of the littlefield game, this means:
a) the score is like the accounting statements. if you are primarily watching the score (without understanding what is driving the score) then you are
b) sorry to be so blunt - a lousy manager. c) if you are just watching the score, you pretty much have no idea how well you are doing as the game progresses. d) you should not (primarily) look at the score. instead, you should look at other selected graphs.