PNL Study Group Day 6: Position/Hand Reading/FIP

[Lawman]

Might be a stupid question but I am a NL noob so bear with me:

Hand no. 2 on page 87 you discuss what to do with a small stack relative to the pot (raise all in) and say this would be a bad move with a much bigger stack. So far so good.

My question is what to do in the big stack scenario? Presumably you just call to keep the pot small and because a smaller than all in raise may just result in a reraise so you end up folding or committed anyway. In fact is this an example of what can happen with poor planning (i.e. I've got a good hand so I think I ought to raise at least a little bit and then wham you're faced with an all in reraise).