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The planning school: strategy formation as a formal process
“What I especially like about being a philosopher-scientist is that I don’t have to get my hands dirty.”
"I was in a warm bed, and suddenly I'm part of a plan."
Woody Allen in Shadows and Fog
The 1970s saw the publication of literally thousands of articles, in both the academic journals and the popular business press, that extolled the virtues of formal 'strategic planning.' In one sense, this was hugely successful, for it implanted in managers' minds everywhere a kind of imperative about the process: that it was something modern and progressive for which managers could only ...
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