strategic planning

[Jack Ricchiuto]

Planning is a tricky thing, especially in a world that seems to have an endless appetite for surprise. Planning is in itself neither intrinsically good or bad, but the intention behind it can be more or less effective.

I am weary of groups and organizations whose intention to plan is based in the futile effort of trying to surprise-proof the world. I encourage planning from an intention that a vision of the future can help us see the sparkling opportunities of the present in a fresh way. In this sense, a vision is a lens not a commandment, taking away from us our responsibility and passion. It's purpose is to create rather than predict. Prediction projects responsibility and power; creativity returns them to us.

Jack

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jack ricchiuto
two.one.six/three.seven.three/seven.four.seven.five
www.designinglife.com / www.appreciativeleadership.org 


------------Original Message------------
From: kerry napuk <k at napuk.demon.co.uk>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Date: Tue, May-24-2005 10:46 AM
Subject: strategic planning
Dear Craig

Having written a book on strategic planning, which, by the way, led
me to large group work because of the difficulty in cascading a top
team's plan into an organisation where most people did not
participate in making the plan, I still believe in the value of
planning for the future.

For me, however, it has now become an issue of who does the planning
and whose plan it is.  Now we enter the area of participation and
ownership and the imperative need to open the planning process by
getting "the whole system into one room."  Open Space is a very
effective process to get people to discuss issues and propose actions
with passion and responsibility, leading to commitment at the point
of participation.

Strategies naturally emerge from this work when people agree a way
forward and commit enough energy to make things happen.  Accordingly,
it seems limiting to facilitate top teams to bond around an agreed
future when such a powerful alternative exists.

Regards

Kerry
Edinburgh

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