Agamedes explains why a project plan is useful, as long as no-one follows that plan. Tongue in cheek? Or perhaps a valid opinion...
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I've just read a very strange book with some rather interesting ideas... In one scene, the revolutionaries are discussing the plan for the revolution:
"You mean you believe that [your fellow revolutionary] will not follow the plan? But you're not necessarily giving him the real one. No wonder he doesn't trust you."
What -- you may be asking -- is the point of a plan if people can not or do not follow that plan?!
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"Any plan is better than no plan, right?"
(For those who are interested -- and I do not recommend it -- the book is Five Jade Disks by Chang Hsi-Kuo.)
The man in charge of the revolution has more to say about the role of plans and planning. There's a lot of truth in what he says.
- The people who plan are different to the people who follow plans. Good point! If we're going to do it ourselves, why plan? We know what we need to do! It's those other people who need to be told what to do; the plan is for them...
- By making a plan, the planner feels important. They feel that they are doing something worthwhile. Planning keeps the planners occupied, makes them feel important -- and keeps them out of the way of the "doing" people, who will then be free to not follow the plan.
- How are battles -- and businesses -- won? By individual skills and initiative, of course! Who has ever won fame and fortune by following a plan? No-one! If you want to be a loser -- follow someone else's plan. If you want to be a winner -- use your own initiative.
- As soon as two people work together -- initiative is lost.
- So who -- in their right mind -- would ever follow someone else's plan?!
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