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It takes humility to reconsider our past commitments, doubt to question our present decisions, and curiosity to reimagine our future plans.
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Strategic plans are statements of what we intend to do. Strategic actions are steps we have already taken or are taking which suggest our longer-term intent.
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Without imagination, leaders cannot meet emergencies and create plans to guide their followers efficiently.
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With anything new and complicated, it is easy to get caught up in the planning and strategy. Those elements are crucial, but when it comes to any kind of creative work, what matters in the end is the doing.
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The problem with rejection is not the rejection itself, but the fact that we cannot understand the greater plan behind it in that moment… Rejection only makes sense in hindsight.
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In the rush of today’s world you need a plan to make sure you stay genuinely connected with a human you know and like.
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As a person practices any activity, the planning and executing of it moves gradually from one part of the brain to another… with practice – often arduous practice – the activity gets rooted in the back of the cerebellum… the automatic pilot of the brain.
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…the goal of all the prioritizing and planning is to program you and your brain so that habit, routine, and other automatic functions can take over a big chunk of the work, freeing up your frontal lobs to the creative, sophisticated work…
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…the ritual of strategic planning, which assumes ‘the future will be more or less like the present,’ is more hindrance than help. – Gary Hamel
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…order can emerge from the bottom up, as opposed to being directed, with a plan, from the top down.
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