Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
—George Bernard Shaw
Early in my consulting career, when I worked for one of the “Big 5” global consulting firms, I was invited to attend a three-day Strategic Planning workshop. Consultants from around the world gathered in a ritzy hotel and worked through a proprietary planning methodology, with the expectation that we’d be selling lots of strategy engagements. The beginning phase of this planning process was titled “Planning ...
