THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Plan

“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” - Denis Waitley


TOPIC OF THE DAY

Your Crucial - and Unwritten - Plan

Are you ready for the future? "Sure," you say, "we have a plan," as you point to a 3-ring binder on the shelf or pull up a slide-deck on your laptop.

For many managers and organizations, that written document with its fixed view of the future — usually expressed as a set of hoped-for numbers and a to-do list with dates — is how they plan to deal with whatever lies ahead.

But if that plan is all you have, and it's more than a few weeks old, you probably won't be ready. Why? Because the future you assume in that document is probably not the future that will actually unfold. You can only see the future dimly, and, as you watch it come over the horizon, it's constantly changing. How are you going to deal with that?

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