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2006.Dec.08 Fri
"Inc. on Responding to Change"
In the article "Go Ahead, Make A Mess" in the December 2006 issue of Inc. magazine, we read:
Studies suggest that strategic planning is not only a waste of time, it's actually at least likely to hurt as help. [...]
Strategic planning essentially requires casting a blind eye to certain key facts: The world is an unpredictable place [...], markets are complex, competitors will counter your every move, and most managers fail to recognize the ways in which their own organizations deviate from their neat conceptions. [...]
According to the source cited in the article, companies that emphasize strategic planning did not perform better, on the average, than companies that do less planning.
The article also suggests that keeping things tidy has a cost: "people who claim to have 'very neat' desks report spending 36 percent more time looking for things than people who say they have 'fairly messy' desks."