From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no>
--On 9. juni 2004 10:00 -0400 David Lloyd-Jones <dlj_canada(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On this planet things are almost always set up without plans, and plansare
almost always constructed ex post facto to justify whatever happened.
not my experience.
Harald,
A single example would make this observation more credible. There certainly
are areas of life in which the making of plans routinly precedes an action
-- but they are almost always things of the most utterly routine kind.
Building corporations make plans of the houses they are about to build, but
they rarely make plans for the development of their businesses. Ordinary
people sometimes write shopping lists before going to the supermarket, but
this is rare, and other aspects of ordinary life is which people make the
"detailed plans" that an earlier correspondent referred to are far rarer
still.
my favourite quote on planning is "the purpose of planning is so that you
can panic in time" - closely followed by "no plan survives first contact
with the enemy".
These two quotes are rather in the same spirit as my earlier post.
The point I wanted to make, without saying it too baldly, was that the
messages about planning, on all sides, seemed to be posted in order exactly
to avoid the issue people felt strongly about -- the question of whether
there is any good reason to put the hiring of paid staff at the top of the
common agenda.
There, I've said it baldly.
Since we agree that cute quotes have a valuable role in life, I am sorry
that I cannot find the canonical form of that Law which states that an
organization which puts its own organization high on the agenda is well
along in tottering its last steps.
Best,
-dlj.
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