One
of my favorite business bloggers, Seth Godin, writes: "Assume your
plans are wrong". He is referring to our inability to predict the
future when we look more than a couple of generations out.
In his
predicting of wrong, he is so right. Whenever we become beholden to
plans that are more than a decade out, we are probably going to end up
disappointed because of the change that occurs around us that disrupt
those plans. And then add on generations of changes of leadership and
personnel and who knows what will happen.
Ask Bill Gates about this as
he readies to return to a more active role at Microsoft. The company
that he sees today is a far cry from the company that he founded and
while he may know a few familiar faces from the old days, the executive
suite is now filled with people that he wasn't together with in that
first foxhole.
We should plan strategically. It's important we do so,
and we need to try and look as far ahead as we can. But, the attitude
that goes with that far-reaching strategy needs to be open-minded enough
that if things begin to change tomorrow, then we are willing to toss
that plan out the window and redirect without remorse or frustration.
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