The new plan won't do what the last one didn't.
The plan was never the variable. The system that determines what happens to the plan is.
Topic
Plans and Execution
A collection of 3 issues
Jim Collins Says He Got Lucky With Good to Great. He's Wrong. Here's Why.
The more accurate read: the breakthrough was inevitable, and a function of math not luck.
Good to Great didn't happen because lightning struck where it was unlikely to strike. It happened because Collins put lightning rod after lightning rod in a place where lightning storms would occur often
Plans don't fail because they're bad plans.
They fail because the default motivational state underneath most organizations makes execution structurally impossible.
There are only two motivational states a team can be in.
The first is performance orientation. Teams regulate their effort based on progress signals, real scores, real feedback, real distance between here and the objective. The