NEW PODCAST: The Death of Strategic Planning (Part I)

Show Notes for April 2, 2005 Associations Unorthodox podcast (17:42)

1. Associations Unorthodox intro
2. Jeff explains why there wasn't a March 26 show.
3. Jeff talks about the death of Pope John Paul II today.
4. Jeff talks about his new recording equipment, including the Edirol R-1 portable recorder.
5. Jeff thanks Blair St. Amand of Association Trends for covering the March 15 Google and innovation session.
6. AU Promo Contest:  Call the comment line (see below) and leave your favorite promo suggestion for AU.  (Think of ideas similar in style to those promos used during the show.)  Suggestions will be solicited through April 16 and will be chosen by Jeff; both of these are changes from two weeks ago.  The winning promo idea(s) will be recorded by Ron Harper and the winner(s) will receive an Amazon gift certificate.
7. Jeff's begins discussing the death of strategic planning.
8. Break
9. Jeff lays out four core arguments against strategic planning:  1) lack of stable/predictable operating environment, 2) inappropriate combination of two different ways of thinking into a single process, 3) strategic planning as a mechanism of CEO/board control and 4) elites-driven processes do not yield strategic breakthroughs.
10. "Outro" by Ron includes Feedback Loop:  comments to the blog, e-mail address or audio comment line:  1-888/250-3329
11. Next week's podcast:  Topic to be announced

Comments

[BiSHoP]

Great post, I see racial self-segregation all the time, and I want to investigate the issue more thoroughly.