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3 Times When Strategic Planning Should Not Be A Team Effort | Gorman Houston | Strategic Management
a 3 Times When Strategic Planning Should Not Be A Team E ort
Sometimes, plans can bene t from having the contributions of a wide range of viewpoints. Di erent people are able to envision di erent problems, which allow possible solutions or even alternative plans to be built directly into the plan. In other cases, however, to make cooks spoil the broth. While there are times a wide range of viewpoints can help make plans more comprehensive, there are also times when plans are better-made solo. Here are three times when strategic planning should not be a team e ort. 1. When everyone has a competing agenda There are times when everyone genuinely wants to make a plan better, but in other cases, they just want to get something for themselves. In that case, team planning meetings have a tendency to simply devolve into chaos. If you need to make strategic plans for something the team itself has a direct stake in, it is far better to make those plans yourself or to leave them to a single individual. gormanhouston.org/3-times-when-strategic-planning-should-not-be-a-team-effort/
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