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Every October, the invitation arrives: Next Year Planning Kickoff. A day is blocked, a facilitator is booked, and by late afternoon the team has a one-page plan and the warm glow that comes from feeling aligned.
Then the page goes quiet.
We saw this up close with a lean organization we began working with a few years ago. They planned in a single day, filed the page, and rarely touched it again.
Read MoreA few months ago, I sat in on a leadership offsite where a president told her team, "We need to be more strategic this year." Heads nodded. Someone wrote it on a whiteboard. The meeting moved on to a 45-minute debate about which project management tool to standardize on.
Nobody in that room was lazy or coasting. Every calendar was double-booked. Six months later, the "strategic" priority hadn't moved an inch.
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