One of the most celebrated activities of the past few decades has been the concept of planning. We now have master and strategic plans, capital improvement plans, career development, and succession plans. Some of them have matured and resulted in significant improvements and others have sat on a shelf acquiring a patina of dust. The desire to plan has resulted in the following cliche: If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. Yet we find very little attention paid to the execution of plans and the process of midcourse planning corrections as opposed to writing the plans in the first place.
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