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.

The problem was never the plan. It's the hidden system that decides what happens to the plan after it's formed. True for you as an individual leader, and true for your team. The real work of pursuing the outcomes you want has to do with engaging that system, not building another plan. That's the work beneath the work.

If plans are like gasoline then that system is like the engine. Guess what happens when you keep pouring better and better fuel into a flawed system?

Running this kind of analysis is harder alone. I work with groups of 7–12 CEOs, founders and owners who do it together. Let's book a 30-minute conversation.

Best,
C

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