When undertaking a now-to-new (innovation, change or problem solving) project, a detailed plan is not required.Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
You need only think about the big stepping stones and what needs to happen next.
The ground will shift as the project progresses.
Unforeseen obstacles and opportunities will almost certainly arise.
This is when spontaneous action is often the best response.
The purpose of a plan is to help you get to the next plan.We live in a world that underestimates the unexpected and prizes linear thinking and the illusion of control. But life, as well as business, is more emergent than that, as the global pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown. We plan things in one way, and something else happens. Some people leverage that sort of change into positive outcomes and others don’t. In my research into what makes individuals and organizations fit for the future, one insight has come up again and again: It turns out that many of the world’s leading minds have, often unconsciously, developed a capacity to cope with the unexpected. This ability, which I call a serendipity mindset, allows for the unexpected to be viewed as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Christian Busch, a business professor at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, cited by Suvarchala Narayanan in her strategy+business article Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
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