The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

The thirty-year-old obituary for strategy-as-prediction: planning’s fallacies of predetermination, detachment and formalisation, from inside the management academy. Read with Mintzberg & Waters’ ‘Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent’ (1985), which supplies the vocabulary — and the caution that pure emergent strategy is as rare as pure deliberate. Together they mean our “pattern, not plan” position is mainstream inheritance, not a new discovery of deep-disposition work — which protects the strategy from being dismissed as fashionable and from claiming too much.

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