10% implementation
It seems to me that at the heart of strategic planning is that great quote - "chance favours the prepared mind". While I accept that the physical documentation of a plan is for some the most important thing, and getting the strategic plan onto one page is important to others for me it is the least important of matters. Perhaps it's my lack of completer/finisher - who would now. Strategic planning is I think that rare opportunity for reflection and creation of our thoughts (plans) about how we would like to engage with our future and with one another and the things we do. Anyone who approaches strategic planning as a control of the unknown is I think a little mad. It is in this light that I think open space gives life to the heart of strategic planning. It gives anyone who cares in the future of an entity a chance to reflect and create the sense of how they would like to move forward. Implementation is not it seems to me an appropriate measure of strategic planning or open space - awareness, readiness, agility, connectedness, sustainability are, I think, better yardsticks. In traditional strategic planning only a few people get to develop this awareness, using open spce in strategic planning means that any one who care enough has a prepared mind for chance and the future. Anne Pattillo Anne Pattillo Consulting Phone 64 4 473 2702 Fax 64 4 4732703 * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html