No plan survives its first contact with reality. That’s my paraphrase of an often-paraphrased Helmuth von Moltke quote that: “no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” No one seemed to have heard that advice when I was coming up in business. In » Read More
Category: Planning
Why people would rather plan than execute
In their marvelous book, Execution, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan say: “Execution is not only the biggest issue facing business today; it is something that no one has explained satisfactorily.” Execution was published 2002 and things haven’t changed all that much. Executives, investors, and authors » Read More