🔥 Hot Take Alert #4: Annual Planning Is a Colossal Waste of Time
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🔥 Hot Take Alert #4: Annual Planning Is a Colossal Waste of Time
Furthermore, long-term planning instills a false sense of security. The sooner you admit you have no idea what the world will look like in five years, three years, or even one year, the sooner you’ll be able to move forward without the fear of making the wrong big decision years in advance. Nothing looms when you don’t make predictions.
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Plans ultimately form the core of business organizations; they corral and structure, channel thought and action into a controllable field. But it's important to understand that plans do and will fail. The future is unknown and things change; it is imperative to understand and plan for it.
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The dominant model makes business planning equivalent to strategy-making. The trouble with this is that planning is more about managing risks and becoming comfortable with them than about assuming them. A more effective model distinguishes strategy development as a process of choosing goals and risks rather than one in which you seek to control ris
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