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A good deal of the corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance; it has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, it seems to me that much of the advice and instruction related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.