We all plan in one way or another. Plan a vacation, a party, a visit to the zoo or any family event. What I am saying you don’t have to be IBM to plan in the future. All organizations have some form of planning. Though I must say some do it better than others.
Even when the plan is worked out with great detail and thinking it might not always come out as planned. I think that happens is most of the cases.
Back to IBM they worked very hard at planning and many times the plan would change. Then why did the keep planning. Will the planning process helped the organization look at many different outcomes, so when things didn’t work as planned they were ready to adjust to the new environment.
What I am telling you that even the best laid plans don’t happened as was thought when first developed. That is OK. That is because we are in an ever changing world and what was thought to be the right thing to do yesterday is not the thing to do today.
How do we use this in our personal world? It is all right to have goals and plans to achieve the goal, but we should not get so caught up in the plan that we miss new opportunities. What I mean by this if we get too fixated on the plan we can be inflexible. When that happens we can’t see that we should rethink how we were going to achieve our goal. In the last few months the whole financial world turned upside down. If you didn’t rethink your plan you could have been swept away by the changing times.
Planning helps us to anticipate the future and that is good, but we have to remember that at times we will have to modify those plans so we can achieve our goal.
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