Chapter . Conclusion
If you want to make God laugh, goes an old business adage, show Him your plan. In a time of rapid and massive change, such as we now live in, formal planning is too often an exercise in futility. It's not just change that makes this so. The narrowness of most business planning—or personal planning, for that matter—contributes as well.
Planners tend to make three really big mistakes:
Faulty or inadequate analysis
Not seeing the big picture—the context
Failure to link information to action
The first of these cannot be corrected easily. It requires a wrenching change in ordinary or usual thinking. The techniques in this book can help you think better in order to act more effectively. It is very difficult to change how you think, but ...
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