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Business Planning is Crap
Business Planning is Crap
Catchy title, eh? But it must be true, because so few small and mid-sized companies do it. Why would anyone who wants to build a successful company avoid doing something that might help them succeed? Well there are a lot of very solid reasons, or so we’re told. In fact, we’ve been told one or more of those reasons so often that I made a list of them for my last book. In the interest of thorough research, of course. And then I presented that list to leaders of companies that do follow business planning best practices, and I thought the comparison might be interesting, so here goes:
| Why leaders say they don’t plan | Why leaders say they plan |
| Planning is a lot of work; busy managers don’t have time for still another task. | Planning actually saves work and time, by helping managers to avoid doing more work than is necessary to reach their goals. |
| Plans are obsolete as soon as they’re done. It’s no sooner done than it has to be revised. | Plans are dynamic and ever evolving as the business evolves. The best ones get reviewed and modified regularly. |
| Plans must always be long and detailed to be of any value; otherwise how would anyone know their part in the plan? | Plans need not be any more detailed than the company needs to guide its activities. Some very focused plans for small business will fit on a single page. |
| Business moves too fast to be held back by a plan. If we can’t think on our feet – and act accordingly – we’re going to be left behind. | The speed of business is a big reason why plans are important, because we can go very far off the mark in a short time. Plans don’t hold managers back; rather, they guide managers’ forward movement. |
| Planning is not as important or valuable as doing something productive. Plans don’t make things happen; people do. | Planning makes what we do more productive by enabling us to avoid doing things that don’t contribute to our productivity as measured by end results. |
| We should leave the planning to the planners and let the managers do their work. | Plans done without the substantial involvement of the managers who are making the decisions are largely useless, because they don’t reflect reality. |
Not to point fingers or accuse anyone of not being good leaders. Just presenting some contrasting thoughts for your consideration. By the way, how’s your plan 2021 coming?
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