“Just Enough” Plans
Gary Hamel claims that people in many companies do so much up-front analysis because there's intense pressure on them to be right all the time. That drives out imagination, and creates an environment of fear:
If you insist on being incontrovertibly right, you will never be new. It's that simple. The fear of being wrong is so strong in many organizations that any idea not backed by a dumpster of data is automatically suspect.[1]
[1] Gary Hamel, Leading the Revolution, Harvard Business School Press, 2000, 140.
Our manufacturing project plans reflect how fearful, or arrogant, we are. Either we try to create a plan that will make us less afraid by predicting every possible outcome, or we try to dictate the future because we think ...
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