Executing Plans #1

What surprises you is how much is improvised. Great beautiful plans are drawn up by the hundred: general, schematic, detail, detail of detail.

And then, in reality, the plans don’t necessarily show you how to do the damn thing. What steps to take, in what order, how – to – do – it. Sure, there are logical orders, but not as many as you’d think.

Imagine assembling a Christmas bicycle – 10-speed, no parts pre-assembled – with only the parts list and a schematic drawing, no step-by-step instructions. Multiply this by ten thousand (because, really, a bike is so pitifully simple compared to a company’s business operations). Now add in one more factor . . .

Sometimes the plans are wrong.