“Precise goals elaborated from the top. . . promote rigidity.”

“Precise goals elaborated from the top. . . promote rigidity. Philip Knight, the founder and chairman of Nike, reflected on this: ‘A plan is more than a list of where we are going to be: Point A, Point B, Point C. The problem is that the plan never works out in the way you thought it would. When we look ahead over the next three or four years and say, ‘Here’s a plan with a capital P’—and we’ve done this a little bit—the guys in the middle read it and think it is cast in stone. Then the plan becomes a substitute for thinking. People stop thinking about why they are doing what they are doing. This leads to all kinds of bad decisions.’ ”

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“Precise goals elaborated from the top. . . promote rigidity.”

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