Avoiding Making Conventional Mistakes When Doing Strategic Thinking and Planning
Following is a checklist for you to use to ensure that you are staying on track.
| Possible Conventional Mistakes to Do When Doing Strategic Planning | Now Do | WillContinueto Do | WillChangeWhat I Do |
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1. Call all levels of planning “strategic” and thus not aligning societal value added (Mega), organizational contributions (Macro) and value added, and individual performance contributions and value added (Micro). | |||
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2. Use a “systems” approach (that isolates and separates the various parts of the system and treats them as if they are the entire system) and not a “system” approach, which is holistic. | |||
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3. Confuse ends and means and blur strategy, tactics, operations, ... |
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