Planning is not an event
There’s an awful lot that becomes routine. Standard operating procedures get embedded in mundanity and attention moves to today’s problems. The world turns and, when nobody’s…
It sometimes feels like planning is a special event where we take time out of our normal schedule to sit down and turn our faces forwards, just for a day or two, to consider how we’d like things to play out. And, when it’s done, we can get back to the real work of the day-to-day.
Whilst there’s nothing wrong with taking focused time to invent a desired future on a grander scale … planning is not an event. It’s not something that happens in one place only, it doesn’t exist in an other-worldly place detached from normal life, it doesn’t get in the way.
It’s every day.
It’s daily, hourly, routine. It’s woven into every meeting, every email, every commitment. It’s a fully engaged activity that ebbs with setbacks and flows with reality. It’s the actual job of actual leadership.
Skippy strategy: Every day is planning.
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